Abstract: The skill of stratospheric and tropospheric predictors in predicting near-surface quantities at the extended range (?10 days?2 months) has been investigated, using 40 yr of reanalysis data from the European Centre for ...

Abstract: The cloud diabatic forcing (CDF) of the atmosphere, defined as the difference between the diabatic heating in average and in clear-sky conditions is estimated from time series of simultaneous observations of diabatic heating ...

Abstract: The ozone budget in the Antarctic region during the stratospheric warming in 2002 is studied, using ozone analyses from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) ozone-transport and assimilation model called ...