Atmosphere  

Jeffrey D. Auger, Sean D. Birkel, Kirk A. Maasch, Paul A. Mayewski and Keah C. Schuenemann

We have produced a global ensemble mean of the four third-generation climate reanalysis models for the years 1981–2010. The reanalysis system models used in this study are National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System ... see more

Bo Huang, Ulrich Cubasch and Yan Li

Eight current re-analyses—NCEP/NCAR Re-analysis (NCEPI), NCEP/DOE Re-analysis (NCEPII), NCEP Climate Forecast System Re-analysis (CFSR), ECMWF Interim Re-analysis (ERA-Interim), Japanese 55-year Re-analysis (JRA-55), NASA Modern-Era Retrospective An... see more

Xuehua Li, Chuanzhi Wang, Zhengxia Qin, Jianxin He, Fang Liu and Qing Sun

Velocity ambiguity is one of the main challenges in accurately measuring velocity for the future Geostationary Spaceborne Doppler Weather Radar (GSDWR) due to its short wavelength. The aim of this work was to provide a novel velocity dealiasing method for... see more

Benjamin J. Hatchett

On 5–7 April 2018, a landfalling atmospheric river resulted in widespread heavy precipitation in the Sierra Nevada of California and Nevada. Observed snow levels during this event were among the highest snow levels recorded since observations began ... see more

Dara Salcedo, Harry Alvarez-Ospina, Oscar Peralta and Telma Castro

The “Aerosoles en Ciudad Universitaria 2015” (ACU15) campaign was an intensive experiment measuring chemical and optical properties of aerosols in the winter of 2015, from 19 January to 19 March on a site in the south of Mexico City. The mass ... see more

Virginia Murray and Thomas David Waite

Yuch-Ping Hsieh, Glynnis Bugna and Kevin Robertson

Ruiqiang Ding, Jianping Li, Yu-heng Tseng, Lijuan Li, Cheng Sun and Fei Xie

Using the reanalysis data and the numerical experiments of a coupled general circulation model (CGCM), we illustrated that perturbations in the second dominant mode (EOF2) of springtime North Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) variability, referred to ... see more

Evgueni Kassianov, Larry K. Berg, Mikhail Pekour, James Barnard, Duli Chand, Jennifer Comstock, Connor Flynn, Arthur Sedlacek, John Shilling, Hagen Telg, Jason Tomlinson, Alla Zelenyuk and Jerome Fast

We examine the performance of our approach for calculating the total scattering coefficient of both non-absorbing and absorbing aerosol at ambient conditions from aircraft data. Our extended examination involves airborne in situ data collected by the U.S.... see more

Edward Maru, Taiga Shibata and Kosuke Ito

This study examines tropical cyclone (TC) activity around the Solomon Islands (SIs) using best track data from the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre, Brisbane, and the Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre, Nadi. Analysis of long-term trends showed tha... see more

Frank Dempsey

Blocking weather patterns cause persistent weather situations that alter typical wind and circulation patterns which may result in stagnant weather conditions at the surface and potentially adverse conditions that affect society, such as extended warmth, ... see more

Vernon Cooray

In the lightning rods categorized as Early Streamer Emission (ESE) types, an intermittent voltage impulse is applied to the lightning rod to modulate the electric field at its tip in an attempt to speed up the initiation of a connecting leader from the li... see more

Ming Li and Kefeng Liu

The effective prediction of storm track (ST) is greatly beneficial for analyzing the development and anomalies of mid-latitude weather systems. For the non-stationarity, nonlinearity, and uncertainty of ST intensity index (STII), a new probabilistic predi... see more

Luis Gerardo Ruiz-Suárez, Bertha Eugenia Mar-Morales, José Agustín García-Reynoso, Gema Luz Andraca-Ayala, Ricardo Torres-Jardón, José Santos García-Yee, Hugo Alberto Barrera-Huertas, Arturo Gavilán-García and Roberto Basaldud Cruz

In this work, we report the economic impact of exposure to high ozone concentrations on four important crops in the area of influence of the Mexico City Megalopolis. Estimated yield losses were as follows: maize: 3%; oats: 26%; beans: 14%; sorghum: 15%. T... see more

Jin-Woo Heo, Chang-Hoi Ho, Tae-Won Park, Woosuk Choi, Jee-Hoon Jeong and Jinwon Kim

The occurrence of wintertime cold surges (CSs) over East Asia is largely controlled by the surface air temperature (SAT) distribution at high latitudes and thermal advection in the lower troposphere. The thermodynamic background state over northeastern As... see more

Kati Orru, Mari Tillmann, Kristie L. Ebi and Hans Orru

To facilitate resilience to a changing climate, it is necessary to go beyond quantitative studies and take an in-depth look at the functioning of health systems and the variety of drivers shaping its effectiveness. We clarify the factors determining the e... see more

M. Talat Odman, Ran Huang, Aditya A. Pophale, Rushabh D. Sakhpara, Yongtao Hu, Armistead G. Russell and Michael E. Chang

Prescribed burning (PB) is practiced throughout the USA, most extensively in the southeast, for the purpose of maintaining and improving the ecosystem and reducing wildfire risk. However, PB emissions contribute significantly to trace gas and particulate ... see more

Wenqian Ma, Wenyu Huang, Zifan Yang, Bin Wang, Daiyu Lin and Xinsheng He

Nine precipitation regimes over South China are obtained by applying the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) technique to the sub-daily precipitation during the pre-monsoon season (April to June) of 1979–2015. These nine regimes are distinct from each other i... see more

Jean-Baptiste Filippi, Frédéric Bosseur, Céline Mari and Christine Lac

The Aullene fire devastated more than 3000 ha of Mediterranean maquis and pine forest in July 2009. The simulation of combustion processes, as well as atmospheric dynamics represents a challenge for such scenarios because of the various involved scales, f... see more

Yuki Murakami, Naoki Ikegaya, Aya Hagishima and Jun Tanimoto

Computational fluid dynamics simulations with a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes model were performed for flow fields over a building array and inside a building in the array with different building opening positions. Ten combinations of opening locations ... see more

Scott Elliott, Susannah Burrows, Philip Cameron-Smith, Forrest Hoffman, Elizabeth Hunke, Nicole Jeffery, Yina Liu, Mathew Maltrud, Zachary Menzo, Oluwaseun Ogunro, Luke Van Roekel, Shanlin Wang, Michael Brunke, Meibing Jin, Robert Letscher, Nicholas Meskhidze, Lynn Russell, Isla Simpson, Dale Stokes and Oliver Wingenter

We apply principles of Gibbs phase plane chemistry across the entire ocean-atmosphere interface to investigate aerosol generation and geophysical transfer issues. Marine surface tension differences comprise a tangential pressure field controlling trace ga... see more

Robert Kalbarczyk, Eliza Kalbarczyk, Monika Ziemianska and Beata Raszka

The recognition of changes in the course of agricultural thermal periods is vital when it comes to determining appropriate measures for adapting agriculture to climate change. The present study examined changes in air temperature between 1951 and 2014 in ... see more

Nuno Canha, Joana Lage, Catarina Galinha, Susana Coentro, Célia Alves and Susana Marta Almeida

This study evaluated the emissions of specific indoor sources usually present in Portuguese dwellings in order to understand their impact on the indoor air quality. With this aim, three typical activities were studied including home heating using two type... see more

Ahmed Attia, Azam Moosavi and Adrian Sandu

Habib Mohammad Naser, Osamu Nagata, Sarmin Sultana and Ryusuke Hatano

This study was carried out at Kita-mura near Bibai located in central Hokkaido, Japan, with the intention of investigating the effects of different agronomical managements on CH4 emissions from paddy fields on mineral soil over peat under farmers’ a... see more

Lin Si, Parisa A. Ariya and Atmosphere Editorial Office

The published paper [1] has been updated to remove instances of copied text from other publications [2–6].[...]

Satoshi Hirabayashi, Tsutomu Abe, Fumiko Imamura and Chie Morioka

Heat stress is an issue for marathon races in the summer, such as the one planned for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic games. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is planning to grow existing street trees’ canopies to enlarge their shade to reduce air tem... see more

Dominik Fröhlich and Andreas Matzarakis

Arkadiusz M. Tomczyk, Marek Pólrolniczak and Leszek Kolendowicz

The objective of the paper was to characterize the occurrence of cold days and cold waves in Poznan in the years 1966/67–2015/16, as well as to characterize thermal conditions in the city during selected cold waves in the years 2008/09–2015/16... see more

Darren R. Clabo

A recent wildland fire history and climate database was compiled for South Dakota, USA (SD). Wildfires are generally a warm season phenomenon across central and western SD while eastern SD exhibits a spring peak in annual wildfire activity. It is hypothes... see more