Atmosphere  

Xinlei Ge, Yanan He, Yele Sun, Jianzhong Xu, Junfeng Wang, Yafei Shen and Mindong Chen

Nitrate is a very important aerosol component, thus elucidation of its characteristics and formation mechanisms is essential and important for effective reduction of aerosol pollution. In this work, highly time-resolved submicron aerosol (PM1) data measur... see more

Hao Zhang, Hong Li, Qingzhu Zhang, Yujie Zhang, Weiqi Zhang, Xuezhong Wang, Fang Bi, Fahe Chai, Jian Gao, Lingshuo Meng, Ting Yang, Yizhen Chen, Qi Cheng and Fenmei Xia

Atmospheric volatile organic compounds (VOCs) measurement was carried out using gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID) technique (Airmo VOCs online analyzer) in a typical urban area in Beijing from April 2014 to January 2015. Ambient levels... see more

Peter G. Baines and Selwyn Sacks

Mengwei Jia, Tianliang Zhao, Xinghong Cheng, Sunling Gong, Xiangzhi Zhang, Lili Tang, Duanyang Liu, Xianghua Wu, Liming Wang and Yusheng Chen

Abstract: By analyzing the data of urban air pollutant measurements from 2013 to 2015 in Nanjing, East China, we found that the correlation coefficients between major atmospheric compound pollutants PM2.5 and O3 were respectively 0.40 in hot season (June,... see more

Jordi Mazon and David Pino

Using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) – Advanced Research WRF (ARW) mesoscale model (WRF–ARW), we investigate how two nocturnal offshore rainbands occurring in the Mediterranean basin are modified in a warmer sea surface temperature (SST). Afte... see more

Yukiko Imada, Shuhei Maeda, Masahiro Watanabe, Hideo Shiogama, Ryo Mizuta, Masayoshi Ishii and Masahide Kimoto

Since the late 1990s, land surface temperatures over Japan have increased during the summer and autumn, while global mean temperatures have not risen in this duration (i.e., the global warming hiatus). In contrast, winter and spring temperatures in Japan ... see more

Yuanchang Dong, Guoping Li, Meng Yuan and Xiaolin Xie

Ying Wang, Yi Yang, Dongxia Liu, Dongbin Zhang, Wen Yao and Chenghai Wang

Lightning network data, considered as a useful supplement to radar observations, are a good indicator of severe convection, and has high temporal and spatial resolution. In Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models, lightning data are a new source of data... see more

Shikai Song, Changqing Jing and Zengyun Hu

In this work, we examined spatial and temporal trends for light rain days based on daily precipitation measurements, obtained from 1960 to 2014, from 590 meteorological stations in China. For the analyzed time interval, light rain days over eastern China ... see more

Majid Javari

With rainfall changes, hydrological process variability increases. This study predicts the potential effects of temperature and topography characteristics on rainfall spatial variability. Temperature and topography were considered as two effective factors... see more

Polioptro F. Martinez-Austria and Erick R. Bandala

Extreme temperatures and heat wave trends in five cities within the Sonoran Desert region (e.g., Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, in the United States and Ciudad Obregon and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora; and Mexicali, Baja California, in Mexico) and one city... see more

Udo Schneider, Peter Finger, Anja Meyer-Christoffer, Elke Rustemeier, Markus Ziese and Andreas Becker

The 2015 release of the precipitation climatology from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) for 1951–2000, based on climatological normals of about 75,100 rain gauges, allows for quantification of mean land surface precipitation as part of t... see more

Agnieszka Wypych, Agnieszka Sulikowska, Zbigniew Ustrnul and Danuta Czekierda

The aim of the study is to estimate the trend in summer maximum air temperature extremes in Poland during the period 1951–2015 by demonstrating the changes in the magnitude of temperature anomalies, temperature “surplus”, as well as the area influenced by... see more

Lucian Sfîca, Adina-Eliza Croitoru, Iulian Iordache and Antoniu-Flavius Ciupertea

Heat waves and warm spells are extreme meteorological events that generate a significant number of casualties in temperate regions, as well as outside of temperate regions. For the purpose of this paper, heat waves and warm spells were identified based on... see more

Andreas Dörnbrack, Sonja Gisinger and Bernd Kaifler

This paper asks the simple question: How can we interpret vertical time series of middle atmosphere gravity wave measurements by ground-based temperature lidars? Linear wave theory is used to show that the association of identified phase lines with quasi-... see more

Fuxing Li and Li He

Wavelet analysis methods (CWT, XWT, WTC) were employed to evaluate the impact of dominant climatic driving factors on summer precipitation in the Beijing area based on monthly precipitation data of Beijing ranging from 1880 to 2014. The two climatic drivi... see more

Wang-chun Woo and Wai-kin Wong

Hong Kong Observatory has been operating an in-house developed rainfall nowcasting system called “Short-range Warning of Intense Rainstorms in Localized Systems (SWIRLS)” to support rainstorm warning and rainfall nowcasting services. A crucial step in rai... see more

Liang Xu, Lei Liu, Jian Zhang, Yinxiao Zhang, Yong Ren, Xin Wang and Weijun Li

Northeast China is located in a high latitude area of the world and undergoes a cold season that lasts six months each year. Recently, regional haze episodes with high concentrations of fine particles (PM2.5) have frequently been occurring in Northeast Ch... see more

Vernon Cooray and Gerald Cooray

Recently, we published two papers in this journal. One of the papers dealt with the action of the radiation fields generated by a traveling-wave element and the other dealt with the momentum transferred by the same radiation fields and their connection to... see more

Jingliang Dong, Zijing Tan, Yimin Xiao and Jiyuan Tu