Report on the 5 th SPARC General Assembly 12-17 January 2014, Queenstown, New Zealand

1Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, 2National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA, 3Deutsches Zentrum fur Luftund Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut fur Physik der Atmosphare, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, 4NOAA Earth Science Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA, 5Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, 6Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, 7Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 8Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK, 9Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, 10Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia, 11Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, Israel, 12School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, New York, USA, 13Centre for Atmospheric Research, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 14National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 15GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany