That was an excellent final session of presentations! #sparcGA2022

A glorious and creative finish of the WCRP SPARC #sparcGA2022 meeting. Thanks to all the organizers for this amazing hybrid multi-hub meeting! Andrew Charlton-Perez Prof Amanda Maycock Yaga Richter and so many more!

It's a wrap! The 7th WCRP SPARC General Assembly took place this week in a new multi-hub hybrid format for a lower carbon footprint. We were proud to host the Europe hub of this meeting, which explored climate variability and prediction. ➡️events.ecmwf.int/event/302/ #sparcGA2022

Thank you everyone for following this amazing event and good night from Reading! Safe travels home. #sparcGA2022

It was a pleasure to host the first multi-hub WCRP SPARC general assembly - what an event! 118 Participants in Boulder NSF NCAR CGD Laboratory NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, 103 ECMWF, 39 in Qingdao, First Institute of Oceanography, 150 online. Thank you all for coming & Andrew Charlton-Perez for your leadership!

The WCRP SPARC ducks have made it home to Reading from Boulder! They joined their friends in the fountain outside ECMWF this morning #sparcGA2022

Great to see Jonas Späth, Philip Rupp Universität München, Sheena Löffel, Hella Garny DLR_de and Georgios Fragkoulidis attending the 7th WCRP SPARC General Assembly ECMWF from 24-27 October 2022! #sparcGA2022 #rubberduckies

Just learnt about the new WCRP SPARC initiative on the stratospheric impacts of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption sparc-climate.org/activities/hun… #QBOWorkshop2023. Upcoming 2 day online meeting in May.

Sneaking out for an early photo and morning tea at the ⁦WCRP SPARC⁩ #QBOWorkshop2023 at the ⁦Department of Physics at University of Oxford⁩ , ⁦University of Oxford⁩. ⁦Met Office Science⁩ ⁦World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)⁩ ⁦National Centre for Atmospheric Science⁩ ⁦Lady Margaret Hall⁩

Some QBO milestones and why a direct simulation of the beast is still difficult by Marco Giorgetta

Aleena Moolakkunnel-Jaison @OxfordAOPP looking up at the semi annual oscillation which gets better with a nudged QBO.

The QBO is still too weak in the lower stratosphere. Martina Bramberger NorthWest Research Associates introduces the obstacle effect of wind blowing over the top of the convective cell. 💨☁️

Board games at the QBOi workshop! 🎲

Day 3 of the QBOi workshop hosted Lady Margaret Hall starting with Kauru Sato. Interhemispheric coupling is more favourable during QBO-E phase.

Michael E McIntyre warning us about not confusing momentum and pseudomomentum.

Very clear review of QBO teleconnections by Lesley Gray @OxfordAOPP highlighting how we define the QBO and also reminding us that the various influence routes do not act in isolation. nature.com/articles/s4301…