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Volume 9 Number 10 Part October Year 2018

30 articles in this issue 

Paolo Cristofanelli, Piero Di Carlo, Eleonora Aruffo, Francesco Apadula, Mariantonia Bencardino, Francesco D’Amore, Paolo Bonasoni and Davide Putero

The Mediterranean basin is considered a global hot-spot region for climate change and air quality, especially concerning summer-time ozone (O3). Previous investigations indicated that the Mediterranean basin is a preferred region for stratosphere-to-tropo... see more

 

Suwubinuer Rekefu, Dilinuer Talifu, Bo Gao, Yusan Turap, Mailikezhati Maihemuti, Xinming Wang and Abulikemu Abulizi

PM2.5 and PM2.5–10 samples were simultaneously collected in Urumqi from January to December 2011, and 14 priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were determined. The mean concentrations of total PAHs in PM2.5 and PM2.5–10 were 20.90~8... see more

 

Zheng Lu and Irina N. Sokolik

We examine the 2002 Yakutsk wildfire event and simulate the impacts of smoke aerosols on local radiative energy budget, using the WRF-Chem-SMOKE model. When comparing satellite retrievals (the Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) dataset) with model simulations... see more

 

Patrick L. Kinney

High temperatures have large impacts on premature mortality risks across the world, and there is concern that warming temperatures associated with climate change, and in particular larger-than-expected increases in the proportion of days with extremely hi... see more

 

Mojtaba Heydarizad, Ezzat Raeisi, Rogert Sori and Luis Gimeno

Iran has faced many water shortage crises in the past. Iran’s moisture sources for precipitation were identified by Lagrangian approach using the FLEXible PARTicle dispersion model (FLEXPART) v9.0 model. The results demonstrate that Iran receives it... see more

 

Ralf Liebermann, Lutz Breuer, Tobias Houska, Steffen Klatt, David Kraus, Edwin Haas, Christoph Müller and Philipp Kraft

European groundwater reservoirs are frequently subject to reactive nitrogen pollution (Nr) owing to the intensive use of nitrogen (N) fertilizer and animal manure in agriculture. Besides its risk on human health, groundwater Nr loading also affects the ca... see more

 

Qiaoyu Tong and Suxiang Yao

Using ERA-interim Reanalysis data and observational data, the intraseasonal oscillation of the winter rainfall in southern China is studied. The mean square deviation of daily precipitation is used to express precipitation variability, and winter precipit... see more

 

Shreemat Shrestha, Murray C. Peel and Graham A. Moore

The assessment of direct radiative forcing due to atmospheric aerosols (ADRF) in the Indo Gangetic Plain (IGP), which is a food basket of south Asia, is important for measuring the effect of atmospheric aerosols on the terrestrial ecosystem and for assess... see more

 

Roberto Bellasio, Roberto Bianconi, Sonia Mosca and Paolo Zannetti

This paper describes the methodology used to incorporate two numerical plume rise algorithms, one by Janicke and Janicke and another by Webster and Thomson, into the Lagrangian particle model LAPMOD. LAPMOD is fully interfaced with the diagnostic meteorol... see more

 

Abdoulaye Sy, Bouya Diop, Joël Van Baelen, Christophe Duroure, Yahya Gour and Jean-Luc Baray

We present a study of upper tropospheric westward transport of air masses coming from the Indian monsoon zone over the period 1998–2008. The objective is to characterize upper tropospheric transport of water vapor from the Indian to Sahelian regions... see more

 

Xiaoxue Wang, Yuguo Li, Xinyan Yang, Pak Wai Chan, Janet Nichol and Qinglan Li

The street thermal environment is important for thermal comfort, urban climate and pollutant dispersion. A 24-h vehicle traverse study was conducted over the Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong in summer, with each measurement period consisting of 2–3 fu... see more

 

Ling-Hsi Chen, Jiunyuan Chen and Chiachung Chen

Evapotranspiration (ET) is a typical biological environmental process to influence leaf temperature, crop water requirement, and greenhouse microclimate. Affecting factors of ET include air temperature, air relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation, ... see more

 

Theomar Neves, Gilberto Fisch and Siegfried Raasch

Using a high resolution model of Large Eddies Simulation (LES), named PALM from PArallel LES Model, a set of simulations were performed to understand how turbulence and convection behave in a pasture and forest sites in Amazonia during the dry and rainy s... see more

 

Francesco Ragone, Monica Mariotti, Antonio Parodi, Jost Von Hardenberg and Claudia Pasquero

The semi-enclosed Mediterranean basin, surrounded by high mountains, is placed in a favorable location for cyclonic storms development. Most of these are extratropical cyclones of baroclinic and orographic origin, but occasionally, some low pressure syste... see more

 

Simone Pezzotti and Marie-Pierre Gaigeot

The knowledge of the water structure at the interface with the air in acidic pH conditions is of utmost importance for chemistry in the atmosphere. We shed light on the acidic air-water (AW) interfacial structure by DFT-MD simulations of the interface con... see more

 

Seogyeong Kim, Kyung-Ja Ha, Ruiqiang Ding and Jiangping Li

This study examines the decadal change in the relationship between two major Indian Ocean (IO) sea surface temperature patterns, namely the Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) and northern IO and the East Asia summer monsoon (EASM) in the early 2000s. In 1991&ndash... see more

 

Li Na, Risu Na, Jiquan Zhang, Siqin Tong, Yin Shan, Hong Ying, Xiangqian Li and Yulong Bao

As the global climate has changed, studies on the relationship between vegetation and climate have become crucial. We analyzed the long-term vegetation dynamics and diverse responses to extreme climate changes in Inner Mongolia, based on long-term Global ... see more

 

Hee-Joo Cho, Jia Kang, Dohyeong Kim, Arom Seo, Minhan Park, Hungsoo Joo and Kihong Park

Mass concentrations of chemical constituents (organics, nitrate, sulfate, ammonium, chloride, and black carbon (BC)) and the number size distribution of submicrometer particles in the ambient atmosphere were continuously measured in urban Gwangju, Korea, ... see more

 

Georgios Matheou

The growth of computing power combined with advances in modeling methods can yield high-fidelity simulations establishing numerical simulation as a key tool for discovery in the atmospheric sciences. A fine-scale large-eddy simulation (LES) utilizing 1.25... see more

 

João Paulo Assis Gobo, Marlon Resende Faria, Emerson Galvani, Fabio Luiz Teixeira Goncalves and Leonardo Marques Monteiro

The bioclimatic well-being of individuals is associated with the environmental characteristics of where they live. Knowing the relationships between local and regional climatic variables as well as the physical characteristics of a given region and their ... see more

 

Jianlei Lang, Shengyue Li, Shuiyuan Cheng, Ying Zhou, Dongsheng Chen, Yanyun Zhang, Hanyu Zhang and Haiyan Wang

Submicron particle (PM1) pollution has received increased attention in recent years; however, few studies have focused on such pollution in the city of Shijiazhuang (SJZ), which is one of the most polluted cities in the world. In this study, we conducted ... see more

 

M. Anwar H. Khan, Billie-Louise Schlich, Michael E. Jenkin, Beth M. A. Shallcross, Katherine Moseley, Catherine Walker, William C. Morris, Richard G. Derwent, Carl J. Percival and Dudley E. Shallcross

A relationship between isoprene and 1,3-butadiene mixing ratios was established to separate the anthropogenic and biogenic fractions of the measured isoprene in London air in both urban background (Eltham) and urban traffic (Marylebone Road) areas over tw... see more

 

Hung-Yu Chen and Shih-Zhe Huang

The South China Sea (SCS) is one of the world’s largest oligotrophic marginal seas. Increases in biomass and primary production in the surface layer of the northern SCS are affected by anthropogenic aerosol use among north Asian peoples. The seasona... see more

 

Gordon Nichols, Iain Lake and Clare Heaviside

Background: Water-related, including waterborne, diseases remain important sources of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but particularly in developing countries. The potential for changes in disease associated with predicted anthropogenic climate changes... see more

 

Ah-Hyun Kim, Seong Soo Yum, Hannah Lee, Dong Yeong Chang and Sungbo Shim

The effects of increased dimethyl-sulfide (DMS) emissions due to increased marine phytoplankton activity are examined using an atmosphere-ocean coupled climate model. As the DMS emission flux from the ocean increases globally, large-scale cooling occurs d... see more