Project SMURPHS

SMURPS has been a large UK project from December 2014 to December 2018, and involved the Universities of Leeds, Edinburgh, Exeter, East Anglia, Oxford, Reading and Southampton; and the British Antarctic Survey and the National Oceanography Centre. My participation has been in the University of Reading (Department of Meteorology). Support has been provided by the UK Met Office, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Max-Planck-Institut fűr Meteorologie (MPIM), Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO) and Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement (LGGE).
Under this project there were several relevant publications: Checa-Garcia et al. (2018) that evaluates the ozone radiative forcing, and Checa-Garcia et al. (2016) that ascertained the contribution of GHG to the recent slowdown in the growth of global mean surface temperatures.

(From SMURPHS webpage: Surges & hiatuses (Risbey, 2015)


References:
  • R. Checa-Garcia, K P Shine, and M I Hegglin. The contribution of greenhouse gases to the recent slowdown in global-mean temperature trends. Environmental Research Letters, 11(9):094018, September 2016. URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094018, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094018. ↩
  • R. Checa-Garcia, Michaela I. Hegglin, Douglas Kinnison, David A. Plummer, and Keith P. Shine. Historical tropospheric and stratospheric ozone radiative forcing using the cmip6 database. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(7):3264–3273, 2018. URL: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017GL076770, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076770. ↩