User:Jushe1234/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Tropopause

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because it needs additional sources to make the article more credible. There are also sections that are too technical which need to be summarized to be better understood. This article matters because the tropopause is the upper boundary of weather cells in Earth's atmosphere. My preliminary impressions are that the article is a little hard to understand in the 'Location' sections, that there aren't many sources within the articles writing, and that the images make the content easier to understand.

Evaluate the article
The lead sections effectively defines the topic, and provides a brief overview of the topic. Although, the introductory section include the other article section but doesn't describe the "Phenomenon" topic. Overall the language is good in this section and easy to read, but the 'Phenomenon" topic needs to be added.

Content is relevant to the topic, but in terms of characterizing the location of the tropopause, one method is described in much more detail than the other. If more information on the chemical method for determining tropopause characterizations was presented in the Wikipedia article and found in the 'Locations" section, then the information would be less biased towards the physics methods. Additionally, the long explanation about the physics method was composed with lots of technical terms that are hard to understand. If this section was summarized it would be more concise and easier to read, this platform should be very accessible for people of all levels of learning.

The tone is good, there is no bias towards any way of thinking or debated theory. Although, like stated above, one method to characterize the location of the tropopause is described in much more detail than the other. This could potentially cause a bias in the writing due to the lack of information supporting the second chemical method, this article by Kinnison et al, (2007) could be used to expand the section.

The use of published articles form reliable peer reviewed journals shows the Wikipedia article is backed up by reliable sources. Although, the listed sources are fairly out of date. From a quick search through the Online Carleton Library, a recent journal about the reassessment of the characteristics of the troposhere written by Hoffmann et al, (2022).

The writing in this article is strong in the "introduction" section where the writing is easy to read. In the "Location" section the writing is too technical and should be summarized for easier reading.

The first image is very helpful for understanding the description in the first paragraph of the "Locations" section. The image should then be moved to the top of the "Locations" section. The copyright of the first image is correct, because the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) allows their images be used for educational purposes(https://sos.noaa.gov/copyright/). Although, the source should be updated to directly cite NOAA. The second image was created by a Wikipedia editor and can be freely used, but the source for this image is not from a peer-reviewed article so maybe subject to biased or incomplete information. The second image should be removed from the article.

The talk page has a lot of constructive criticisms and good ideas for new content. If some of this excess content could be verified and added to the page, then the article would be much more fleshed out with more recent sources.

Overall the article could use some more work. It starts off with a good introduction, but there is some missing information and biased information that needs to be better summarized. The Wikipedia article could also use some more recent peer-reviewed publications on the study. The current description is a good starting point and with the provided suggestions the subject could become a well organized comprehensive article.

References:

Hoffmann, L., & Spang, R. (2022). An assessment of tropopause characteristics of the ERA5 and ERA-Interim meteorological reanalyses. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(6), 4019. https://link-gale-com.proxy.library.carleton.ca/apps/doc/A698543403/AONE?u=ocul_carleton&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=1bbdd287

Kinnison, D. E., Brasseur, G. P., Walters, S., Garcia, R. R., Marsh, D. R., Sassi, F., Harvey, V. L., Randall, C. E., Emmons, L., Lamarque, J. F., Hess, P., Orlando, J. J., Tie, X. X., Randel, W., Pan, L. L., Gettelman, A., Granier, C., Diehl, T., Niemeier, U., & Simmons, A. J. (2007). Sensitivity of chemical tracers to meteorological parameters in the MOZART-3 chemical transport model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112(D20), D20302–n/a. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JD007879

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