30 articles in this issue
Alexandre M. Ramos, Ricardo M. Trigo, Ricardo Tomé and Margarida L. R. Liberato
The European Macaronesia Archipelagos (Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands) are struck frequently by extreme precipitation events. Here we present a comprehensive assessment on the relationship between atmospheric rivers and extreme precipitation events in... see more
Jianlong Feng, Delei Li, Hui Wang, Qiulin Liu, Jianli Zhang, Yan Li and Kexiu Liu
Using hourly sea level data from four tide gauges, the changes of the extreme sea level in the Bohai Sea were analyzed in this work. Three components (i.e., mean sea level, tide and surge) as well as the tide–surge interaction were studied to find w... see more
Xinhua Li, Yinlong Xu, Chunchun Meng, Lei Zhang and Changgui Wang
As a main grain production area in China, Northeast China (NEC) is highly influenced by the higher warming trend than elsewhere in China or even the globe. As the warming trend goes on, scientific understanding of the changes of thermal conditions in NEC ... see more
Chunlan Li, Walter Leal Filho, Jun Wang, Hubert Fudjumdjum, Mariia Fedoruk, Richa Hu, Shan Yin, Yuhai Bao, Shan Yu and Julian Hunt
To improve how extreme events and climate variations are managed, there is a need to foster a deeper understanding of their interconnections. Consistent with this objective, this paper describes how precipitation extremes change both temporally and spatia... see more
Alexandria J. Herdt, Robert D. Brown, Ian Scott-Fleming, Guofeng Cao, Melissa MacDonald, Dave Henderson and Jennifer K. Vanos
Mass sporting events in the summertime are influenced by underlying weather patterns, with high temperatures posing a risk for spectators and athletes alike. To better understand weather variations in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) during the Pan American... see more
Lei Han, Frank Siekmann and Cornelius Zetzsch
Patrick N. Gatlin, Walter A. Petersen, Kevin R. Knupp and Lawrence D. Carey
Weicong Fu, Ziru Chen, Zhipeng Zhu, Qunyue Liu, Jinda Qi, Emily Dang, Minhua Wang and Jianwen Dong
Millions of pulmonary diseases, respiratory diseases, and premature deaths are caused by poor ambient air quality in developing countries, especially in China. A proven indicator of ambient air quality, atmospheric visibility (AV), has displayed continuou... see more
Hengyi Liu, Shi Qiu and Wansheng Dong
VHF (Very High Frequency) lightning interferometers can locate and observe lightning discharges with a high time resolution. Especially the appearance of continuous interferometers makes the 2-D location of interferometers further improve in time resoluti... see more
Domingo Rasilla, Juan Carlos García-Codron, Carolina Garmendia, Sixto Herrera and Victoria Rivas
This paper examines the characteristics and long-term variability of storminess for the Spanish coast of the Bay of Biscay for the period 1948 to 2015, by coupling wave (observed and modelled) and atmospheric datasets. The diversity of atmospheric mechani... see more
Michael L. Larsen and Michael Schönhuber
The two-dimensional video distrometer (2DVD) is a well known ground based point-monitoring precipitation gauge, often used as a ground truth instrument to validate radar or satellite rainfall retrieval algorithms. This instrument records a number of varia... see more
Yingchang You, Xugeng Cheng, Tianliang Zhao, Xiangde Xu, Sunling Gong, Xiaoye Zhang, Yu Zheng, Huizheng Che, Chao Yu, Jiacheng Chang, Guoxu Ma and Ming Wu
In addition to the impact of pollutant emissions, haze pollution is connected with meteorology and climate change. Based on the interannual change analyses of meteorological and environmental observation data from 1981 to 2010, we studied the relationship... see more
Dariusz Mlynski, Marta Cebulska and Andrzej Walega
The aim of this study was to detect trends in maximum annual daily precipitation in the Upper Vistula Basin. We analyzed data from 51 weather stations between 1971 and 2014. Then we used the Mann–Kendall test to detect monotonical trends of the prec... see more
Changqing Lin, Alexis K. H. Lau, Ying Li, Jimmy C. H. Fung, Chengcai Li, Xingcheng Lu and Zhiyuan Li
To more effectively reduce population exposure to PM2.5, control efforts should target densely populated urban areas. In this study, we took advantage of satellite-derived PM2.5 data to assess the difference in PM2.5 variations between urban and rural are... see more
Wei-Ting Chen, Kung-Tzu Huang, Min-Hui Lo and L. H. LinHo
A significant declining trend of post-monsoon season precipitation in South Asia is observed between 2000–2014. Two major anthropogenic climate change drivers, aerosols and irrigation, have been steadily increasing during this period. The impacts of... see more
Vasco M. N. C. S. Vieira, Pavel Jurus, Emanuela Clementi and Marcos Mateus
Accurate estimates of the atmosphere–ocean fluxes of greenhouse gases and dimethyl sulphide (DMS) have great importance in climate change models. A significant part of these fluxes occur at the coastal ocean which, although much smaller than the ope... see more
Thomas Rickenbach
The association between instantaneous extreme precipitation and mesoscale organization over the southeastern United States is not well known. This study addresses whether isolated precipitation features have a distinct distribution and spatial pattern of ... see more
Alexey R. Desyatkin, Shinya Iwasaki, Roman V. Desyatkin and Ryusuke Hatano
Central Yakutia is in one of the most northern agricultural centers of the world. In this territory a notable area of arable land was made by removing the boreal Taiga with the primary purpose of crop cultivation. Such a method of cultivation significantl... see more
Bruce F. Moffett, Tom C. J. Hill and Paul J. DeMott
Ice nucleating particles (INPs) are rare among atmospheric aerosols. However, through their ability to induce freezing of cloud droplets in cold clouds, they affect cloud lifetime, cloud albedo, and the efficiency and distribution of precipitation. While ... see more
Konrad Bärfuss, Falk Pätzold, Barbara Altstädter, Endres Kathe, Stefan Nowak, Lutz Bretschneider, Ulf Bestmann and Astrid Lampert
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Eyal Rahav, Natalia Belkin, Adina Paytan and Barak Herut
Gonzalo Yáñez-Morroni, Jorge Gironás, Marta Caneo, Rodrigo Delgado and René Garreaud
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model has been successfully used in weather prediction, but its ability to simulate precipitation over areas with complex topography is not optimal. Consequently, WRF has problems forecasting rainfall events over... see more
Renato Morbidelli, Carla Saltalippi, Alessia Flammini, Tommaso Picciafuoco, Jacopo Dari and Corrado Corradini
Dani Hadad, Jean-Luc Baray, Nadège Montoux, Joël Van Baelen, Patrick Fréville, Jean-Marc Pichon, Pierre Bosser, Michel Ramonet, Camille Yver Kwok, Nelson Bègue and Valentin Duflot
We present an analysis of decadal in situ and remote sensing observations of water vapor over the Cézeaux and puy de Dôme, located in central France (45° N, 3° E), in order to document the variability, cycles and trends of surface and... see more
Umberto Rizza, Elisa Canepa, Antonio Ricchi, Davide Bonaldo, Sandro Carniel, Mauro Morichetti, Giorgio Passerini, Laura Santiloni, Franciano Scremin Puhales and Mario Marcello Miglietta
Occasionally, storms that share many features with tropical cyclones, including the presence of a quasi-circular “eye” a warm core and strong winds, are observed in the Mediterranean. Generally, they are known as Medicanes, or tropical-like cy... see more
Sun-Hee Shin and Ja-Yeon Moon
The prediction skill for the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) has been analyzed, using the observations and different climate models that participate in the APEC Climate Center (APCC) multi-model ensemble (MME) seasonal forecast. The authors first examine... see more
Junjie Li, Xiao-Bing Li, Bai Li and Zhong-Ren Peng
In recent years, road space rationing policies have been increasingly applied as a traffic management solution to tackle congestion and traffic emission problems in big cities. Existing studies on the effect of traffic policy on air quality have mainly fo... see more
Hong-Wei Xiao, Hua-Yun Xiao, Chun-Yan Shen, Zhong-Yi Zhang and Ai-Min Long
Atmospheric deposition of long-range transported continental substances from natural and anthropogenic sources affects biogeochemical processes in marine systems. Emissions of sea spray contribute aerosol particles to the marine atmosphere. Despite the im... see more
Longjiao Shen, Ping Xiang, Shengwen Liang, Wentai Chen, Ming Wang, Sihua Lu and Zuwu Wang
Adam K. Kochanski, Aimé Fournier and Jan Mandel
Observational data collected during experiments, such as the planned Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE), are critical for evaluating and transitioning coupled fire-atmosphere models like WRF-SFIRE and WRF-SFIRE-CHEM into operational use. ... see more