40 articles in this issue
Xiang Lai, Jonathon S. Wright, Wenyu Huang, Jie Liang, Guanghui Lin and Shanxian Zhu
Coastal mangroves are increasingly recognized as valuable natural resources and important sites of water and carbon exchange. In this study, we examine atmospheric water cycling in the boundary layer above a coastal mangrove forest in southern China. We c... see more
Ioannis-Panagiotis Raptis, Stelios Kazadzis, Kostas Eleftheratos, Vassilis Amiridis and Ilias Fountoulakis
The absorbing and scattering nature of aerosols affects the total radiative forcing and is quantified by single scattering albedo (SSA), which is defined as the absorption to total extinction ratio. There are limited measurements of SSA in the ultraviolet... see more
Larissa Lacher, Martin Steinbacher, Nicolas Bukowiecki, Erik Herrmann, Assaf Zipori and Zamin A. Kanji
Ice nucleation is the source of primary ice crystals in mixed-phase clouds. Only a small fraction of aerosols called ice nucleating particles (INPs) catalyze ice formation, with their nature and origin remaining unclear. In this study, we investigate pote... see more
Aldo S. Moya-Álvarez, José Gálvez, Andrea Holguín, René Estevan, Shailendra Kumar, Elver Villalobos, Daniel Martínez-Castro and Yamina Silva
The ability of the WRF-ARW (Weather Research and Forecasting-Advanced Research WRF) model to forecast extreme rainfall in the Central Andes of Peru is evaluated in this study, using observations from stations located in the Mantaro basin and GOES (Geostat... see more
Simon B. Vosper, Andrew N. Ross, Ian A. Renfrew, Peter Sheridan, Andrew D. Elvidge and Vanda Grubišic
This paper examines current understanding of the influence of orographic flow dynamics on the turbulent transport of momentum and scalar quantities above complex terrain. It highlights three key low-level orographic flow phenomena governed by gravity-wave... see more
Elisa Adirosi, Nicoletta Roberto, Mario Montopoli, Eugenio Gorgucci and Luca Baldini
Relations for retrieving precipitation and attenuation information from radar measurements play a key role in radar meteorology. The uncertainty in such relations highly affects the precipitation and attenuation estimates. Weather radar algorithms are oft... see more
Yassin Mbululo, Jun Qin, Jun Hong and Zhengxuan Yuan
In this study, we investigated six air pollutants from 21 monitoring stations scattered throughout Wuhan city by analyzing meteorological variables in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) and air mass backward trajectories from HYSPLIT during the pollutio... see more
Mirjana Ljubojevic, Ivana Maksimovic, Branislava Lalic, Ljiljana Dekic, Tijana Narandžic, Nenad Magazin, Jovana Dulic, Maja Miodragovic, Goran Barac and Vladislav Ognjanov
The general aim of this research was to determine whether the cherry root cambium possesses similar water-stress adaptation abilities as the scion. Specifically, this study aimed to determine whether there is a shift in root xylem structure due to precipi... see more
Jie Chen, Xiangyu Pei, Hong Wang, Jingchuan Chen, Yishu Zhu, Mingjin Tang and Zhijun Wu
A drop-freeze array (PeKing University Ice Nucleation Array, PKU-INA) was developed based on the cold-stage method to investigate heterogeneous ice nucleation properties of atmospheric particles in the immersion freezing mode from −30 to 0 °C. T... see more
Nongpat Chaichana, Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura, Shujiro Komiya, Yoshiharu Fujii, Kosuke Noborio, Ottfried Dietrich and Tiwa Pakoktom
Greenhouse gas flux monitoring in ecosystems is mostly conducted by closed chamber and eddy covariance techniques. To determine the relevance of the two methods in rice paddy fields at different growing stages, closed chamber (CC) and eddy covariance (EC)... see more
Yapeng Wang, Chao Yu, Jinhua Tao, Zifeng Wang, Yidan Si, Liangxiao Cheng, Hongmei Wang, Songyan Zhu and Liangfu Chen
The temporal and spatial distributions of tropospheric ozone and its precursors (NO2, CO, HCHO) are analyzed over Guangxi (GX) in South China. We used tropospheric column ozone (TCO) from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and Microwave Limb Sounder (M... see more
Susan Collet, Toru Kidokoro, Prakash Karamchandani and Tejas Shah
Many areas of the United States are working toward achieving the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) attainment level. The objective of this study was to develop future-year (2030) volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides (VOC-N... see more
Sytse Koopmans, Reinder Ronda, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Albert A.M. Holtslag and Albert M.G. Klein Tank
In the Netherlands, there will be an urgent need for additional housing by the year 2040, which mainly has to be realized within the existing built environment rather than in the spatial extension of cities. In this data-driven study, we investigated the ... see more
M. Amirul Islam, Andy Chan, Matthew J. Ashfold, Chel Gee Ooi and Majid Azari
The Maritime Continent (MC) is positioned between the Asian and Australian summer monsoons zone. The complex topography and shallow seas around it are major challenges for the climate researchers to model and understand it. It is also the centre of the tr... see more
Thaddaeus Egondi, Remare Ettarh, Catherine Kyobutungi, Nawi Ng and Joacim Rocklöv
Exposure to air pollution is associated with adverse health outcomes. However, the health burden related to ambient outdoor air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa remains unclear. This study examined the relationship between exposure to outdoor air pollution... see more
Lyndon Mark Olaguera, Jun Matsumoto, Hisayuki Kubota, Tomoshige Inoue, Esperanza O. Cayanan and Flaviana D. Hilario
A robust climate shift around 1993/1994 from early August to early September, which corresponds to the mature rainy season of the Philippines, was identified in stations located over the western coast of the country. The convection in the mature rainy sea... see more
Weicheng Liu, Qiang Zhang, Zhao Fu, Xiaoyan Chen and Hong Li
Due to the complex terrain, sparse precipitation observation sites, and uneven distribution of precipitation in the northeastern slope of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, it is necessary to establish a precipitation estimation method with strong applicabi... see more
Hao Wang, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar, Jianxin He, Zhao Shi and Lijuan Wang
As a manifestation of low-altitude wind shear, a downburst is a localized, strong downdraft that can lead to disastrous wind on the ground surface. For effective pre-warning and forecasting of downbursts, it is particularly critical to understand relevant... see more
Cheng Liu, Jianping Huang, Evgeni Fedorovich, Xiao-Ming Hu, Yongwei Wang and Xuhui Lee
Turbulence statistics and spectra in a radiatively heated convective boundary layer (CBL) under aerosol pollution conditions are less investigated than their counterparts in the clear CBL. In this study, a large-eddy simulation (LES) coupled with an aeros... see more
Xiaoyu Gao, Shanhong Gao and Yue Yang
The data assimilation method to improve the sea fog forecast over the Yellow Sea is usually three-dimensional variational assimilation (3DVAR), whereas ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) has not yet been applied to this weather phenomenon. In this paper, two s... see more
Shangfei Hai, Yucong Miao, Lifang Sheng, Linbo Wei and Qing Chen
During the past few decades, rapid economic development occurred in Qingdao. Inevitably, human activities have caused great changes to the underlying surface, including urbanization and coastal change. Coastal change mainly refers to the expansion of the ... see more
Jianxiang Sun, Huijun Huang, Suping Zhang and Weikang Mao
Sea fog can lead to inland fog on the southern China coast, affecting visibility on land. To better understand how such fog influences inland visibility, we observed two sea-fog cases at three sites (over sea, at coast, and inland) and analyzed the result... see more
Shudao Zhou, Shuling Peng, Min Wang, Ao Shen and Zhanhua Liu
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) experiments, multiple datasets from ground-based stations and satellite remote sensing platforms, and backward trajectory models were combined to investigate the characteristics and influential mechanisms of the air pollution... see more
Evan Kutta, Jason A. Hubbart, Timothy P. Eichler and Anthony R. Lupo
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a dominant source of global climate variability. The effects of this phenomenon alter the flow of heat from tropical to polar latitudes, resulting in weather and climate anomalies that are difficult to for... see more
Lan Xia and Yue Zhou
A Jianghuai cyclone is an extratropical cyclone, which influences the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Huai River basins in China. According to the definition of Jianghuai cyclones, statistics of their climate characteristics from 1979 to... see more
Zhi-Jie Tang, Xin Hu, Jun-Qin Qiao and Hong-Zhen Lian
20 sets of indoor and outdoor size-segregated aerosol (SSA) samples (180 foils) were collected synchronously by using two 8 Stage Non-Viable Cascade Impactor from an office room in the central region of the megacity-Nanjing, China in winter and spring in ... see more
Joshua Kastman, Patrick Market and Neil Fox
The Program for Research on Elevated Convection with Intense Precipitation (PRECIP) field campaign sampled 10 cases of elevated convection during 2014 and 2015. These intense observing periods (IOP) mostly featured well-defined stationary or warm frontal ... see more
Kim N. Dirks, Nicholas Talbot, Jennifer A. Salmond and Seosamh B. Costello
This paper explores the impact of choice of ventilation setting (“window open”, “new (external) air” and “recirculate”) on in-vehicle carbon monoxide exposures for commuters travelling by car at different times of the day (morning, midday, and evening) an... see more
Hans Von Storch, Leone Cavicchia, Frauke Feser and Delei Li
We review the state of dynamical downscaling with scale-constrained regional and global models. The methodology, in particular spectral nudging, has become a routine and well-researched tool for hindcasting climatologies of sub-synoptic atmospheric distur... see more
C. M. Sabbir Ahmed, Huanhuan Jiang, Jin Y. Chen and Ying-Hsuan Lin
Traffic-related particulate matter (PM) is a major source of outdoor air pollution worldwide. It has been recently hypothesized to cause cardiometabolic syndrome, including cardiovascular dysfunction, obesity, and diabetes. The environmental and toxicolog... see more
Mojgan Mirzaei, Stefania Bertazzon and Isabelle Couloigner
To understand the health effects of wildfire smoke, it is important to accurately assess smoke exposure over space and time. Particulate matter (PM) is a predominant pollutant in wildfire smoke. In this study, we develop land-use regression (LUR) models t... see more
Hamid Reza Ghafarian Malamiri, Iman Rousta, Haraldur Olafsson, Hadi Zare and Hao Zhang
Land surface temperature (LST) is a basic parameter in energy exchange between the land and the atmosphere, and is frequently used in many sciences such as climatology, hydrology, agriculture, ecology, etc. Time series of satellite LST data have usually d... see more
Levi M. Golston, Nicholas F. Aubut, Michael B. Frish, Shuting Yang, Robert W. Talbot, Christopher Gretencord, James McSpiritt and Mark A. Zondlo
We describe a set of methods for locating and quantifying natural gas leaks using a small unmanned aerial system equipped with a path-integrated methane sensor. The algorithms are developed as part of a system to enable the continuous monitoring of methan... see more
Ling Qiu, Fang Liu, Xiang Zhang and Tian Gao
With the acceleration of urbanisation and industrialisation, atmospheric particulate pollution has become one of the most serious environmental problems in China. In this study, green spaces in Baoji city were classified into different patterns on the bas... see more
Yao Yao, Dehai Luo and Linhao Zhong
In this study, the effects of the Northern Hemisphere atmospheric blocking circulation on Arctic sea ice decline at weekly time scales are examined by defining four key regions based on observational data analysis. Given the regression analysis, the frequ... see more
Yang Zhang, Liping Liu, Hao Wen, Chong Wu and Yonghua Zhang
The development and application of operational polarimetric radar (PR) in China is still in its infancy. In this study, an operational PR quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) algorithm is suggested based on data for PR hydrometeor classification an... see more
Pedro Bolgiani, Sergio Fernández-González, Francisco Valero, Andrés Merino, Eduardo García-Ortega, José Luis Sánchez and María Luisa Martín
Deep convection is a threat to many human activities, with a great impact on aviation safety. On 7 July 2017, a widespread torrential precipitation event (associated with a cut-off low at mid-levels) was registered in the vicinity of Madrid, causing serio... see more
Isaac Mugume, Michel D. S. Mesquita, Yazidhi Bamutaze, Didier Ntwali, Charles Basalirwa, Daniel Waiswa, Joachim Reuder, Revocatus Twinomuhangi, Fredrick Tumwine, Triphonia Jakob Ngailo and Bob Alex Ogwang
Accurate and timely rainfall prediction enhances productivity and can aid proper planning in sectors such as agriculture, health, transport and water resources. However quantitative rainfall prediction is normally a challenge and for this reason, this stu... see more
Juan Li, Young-Min Yang and Bin Wang
The Asian-Australian monsoon (AAM) has far-reaching impacts on global and local climate. Accurate simulations of AAM precipitation and its variabilities are of scientific and social importance, yet remain a great challenge in climate modeling. The present... see more
Mohammed Gedefaw, Denghua Yan, Hao Wang, Tianling Qin, Abel Girma, Asaminew Abiyu and Dorjsuren Batsuren