NASA has selected The Stratosphere Troposphere Response using Infrared Vertically-resolved light Explorer (STRIVE) to move to the next phase of development. Two researchers at the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) contributed to the project.

For the past several years, the MUSICA software engineering team has been creating a software library that represents atmospheric chemistry processes in a model independent and runtime configurable fashion so that MUSICA can interface with any atmosphere model. In the January 2024 newsletter, we showed this vision for MUSICA software development; a simplified version of the schematic is repeated in Figure 1. 

The Hunga Volcanic Eruption Atmospheric Impacts Report, a landmark international scientific assessment, has been released today under the Atmospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (APARC) project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).

The authors are pleased to see how well WACCM does at simulating Hunga impacts, and Hunga has become a benchmark for evaluating global chemistry-climate models.