An Overview of OCTAV-UTLS (Observed Composition Trends and Variability in the UTLS), a SPARC Emerging Activity

Gloria L Manney1, Irina V Petropavlovskikh2, Peter Michael Hoor3, Adam E Bourassa4, Geir Braathen5, Kai-Lan Chang6, Michaela Imelda Hegglin7, Natalya A Kramarova8, Daniel Kunkel3, Zachary D Lawrence9, Thierry Leblanc10, Nathaniel J Livesey11, Luis F Millan Valle12, Gabriele P Stiller13, Susann Tegtmeier14, Valerie Thouret15, Christiane Voigt16 and Kaley A Walker17, (1)NorthWest Research Associates, Inc, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Mainz, Germany, (4)University of Saskatchewan, Department of Physics & Engineering Physics, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (5)World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, (6)CIRES, U. of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (7)University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States, (10)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)JPL / Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (12)JPL, Pasadena, United States, (13)Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Research Center Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, (14)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (15)Laboratoire d’Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France, (16)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (17)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada