30 articles in this issue
Keith Dear
Workers exposed to high ambient temperatures, either indoors or out, work slower. The few studies that have measured this loss of productivity show a degree of consistency across widely varying settings. I develop a class of 5-parameter probability models... see more
Jessica M. McDonald, Alan F. Srock and Joseph J. Charney
In this paper, we describe and analyze a climatology of the Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDW), with the goal of providing fire-weather forecasters with information about the daily and seasonal variability of the index. The 30-year climatology (1981–2010) wa... see more
Zulema Varela, Sofía Debén, Dinesh K. Saxena, Jesús R. Aboal and J. Ángel Fernández
Daniela Mejía-Echeverry, Marcos A. E. Chaparro, José F. Duque-Trujillo, Mauro A. E. Chaparro and Ana G. Castañeda Miranda
Glenn R. McGregor and Kristie Ebi
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an important mode of climatic variability that exerts a discernible impact on ecosystems and society through alterations in climate patterns. For this reason, ENSO has attracted much interest in the climat... see more
Xiaoyu Li, Xiaodong Liu and Zhi-Yong Yin
Aerosols are an important factor affecting air quality. As the largest source of dust aerosol of East Asia, the Taklimakan Desert in Northwest China witnesses frequent dust storm events, which bring about significant impacts on the downstream air quality.... see more
Ye Hong, Chaoliu Li, Xiaolan Li, Yanjun Ma, Yunhai Zhang, Deping Zhou, Yangfeng Wang, Ningwei Liu and Xiaojiao Chang
From 18 February to 13 March 2014 and from 17 December 2016 to 27 January 2017, an online analyzer for monitoring aerosols and gases (MARGA) and an online single particle aerosol mass spectrometer (SPAMS) were used to measure and analyze the concentration... see more
Alan F. Srock, Joseph J. Charney, Brian E. Potter and Scott L. Goodrick
Fire weather indices are commonly used by fire weather forecasters to predict when weather conditions will make a wildland fire difficult to manage. Complex interactions at multiple scales between fire, fuels, topography, and weather make these prediction... see more
Milica Stojanovic, Anita Drumond, Raquel Nieto and Luis Gimeno
The climate in Central Europe (CEU) during the 20th century is characterized by an overall temperature increase. Severe and prolonged drought events began occurring towards the end and these have continued into the 21st century. This study aims to analyze... see more
Hongke Cai, Ke Gui and Quanliang Chen
This study analyzed the long-term variations and trends of haze pollution and its relationships with emission and meteorological factors using the haze days (HDs) data derived from surface observation stations in Sichuan-Chongqing (SCC) region during 1980... see more
Manuela Lehner and Mathias W. Rotach
Coupling of the earth’s surface with the atmosphere is achieved through an exchange of momentum, energy, and mass in the atmospheric boundary layer. In mountainous terrain, this exchange results from a combination of multiple transport processes, wh... see more
Yanyan Shi, Wenyu Huang, Bin Wang, Zifan Yang, Xinsheng He and Tianpei Qiu
Most of the coupled models contain a strong warm bias in sea surface temperature (SST) over the Atlantic Cold Tongue (ACT) region (10° S–3° N, 20° W–10° E) during June–August (JJA) and September–November (SON). In t... see more
Mengxin Xiao, Qiongzhen Wang, Xiaofei Qin, Guangyuan Yu and Congrui Deng
The characteristics of biogenic aerosols in an urban area were explored by determining the composition and temporal distribution of saccharides in PM2.5 in Shanghai. The total saccharides showed a wide range of 9.4 ng/m3 to 1652.9 ng/m3, with the averaged... see more
Won-Ho Nam, Guillermo A. Baigorria, Eun-Mi Hong, Taegon Kim, Yong-Sang Choi and Song Feng
Understanding long-term changes in precipitation and temperature patterns is important in the detection and characterization of climate change, as is understanding the implications of climate change when performing impact assessments. This study uses a st... see more
Bhishma Tyagi, Vincenzo Magliulo, Sandro Finardi, Daniele Gasbarra, Pantaleone Carlucci, Piero Toscano, Alessandro Zaldei, Angelo Riccio, Giuseppe Calori, Alessio D’Allura and Beniamino Gioli
Erica J. Alston and Irina N. Sokolik
Aerosols and their radiative properties play an integral part in understanding Earth’s climate. It is becoming increasingly common to examine aerosol’s radiative impacts on a regional scale. The primary goal of this research is to explore the ... see more
Kati Järvi, Camilla Vornanen-Winqvist, Raimo Mikkola, Jarek Kurnitski and Heidi Salonen
Jie Li, Longyi Shao, Lingli Chang, Jiaoping Xing, Wenhua Wang, Wenjun Li and Daizhou Zhang
Beijing frequently experiences dust storms during spring, which result in deteriorated visibility and cause negative health impacts. In this paper, the dust particles were collected during a dust storm episode on 4–5 May 2017 in Beijing, and the sam... see more
Stephan T. Kral, Joachim Reuder, Timo Vihma, Irene Suomi, Ewan O’Connor, Rostislav Kouznetsov, Burkhard Wrenger, Alexander Rautenberg, Gabin Urbancic, Marius O. Jonassen, Line Båserud, Björn Maronga, Stephanie Mayer, Torge Lorenz, Albert A. M. Holtslag, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Andrew Seidl, Martin Müller, Christian Lindenberg, Carsten Langohr, Hendrik Voss, Jens Bange, Marie Hundhausen, Philipp Hilsheimer and Markus Schygulla
The aim of the research project “Innovative Strategies for Observations in the Arctic Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ISOBAR)” is to substantially increase the understanding of the stable atmospheric boundary layer (SBL) through a combination of w... see more
Pulong Chen, Tijian Wang, Matthew Kasoar, Min Xie, Shu Li, Bingliang Zhuang and Mengmeng Li
Chemical characteristics of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Wuxi at urban, industrial, and clean sites on haze and non-haze days were investigated over four seasons in 2016. In this study, high concentrations of fine particulate matter (107.6 ± ... see more
Jinshuang Zhu, Yudi Liu, Ruiqing Xie and Haijie Chang
The precipitation data from the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) and CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP) were used to investigate the discrepancy of Centre and Eastern Pacific ITCZ (CEP-ITCZ) during two types of El Niño years... see more
Weizeng Shao, Yexin Sheng, Huan Li, Jian Shi, Qiyan Ji, Wei Tan and Juncheng Zuo
The Beibu Gulf is an important offshore region in the South China Sea for the fishing industry and other human activities. In 2017, typhoons Doksuri and Khanun passed the Beibu Gulf in two paths, at maximum wind speeds of up to 50 m/s. Typhoon Doksuri pas... see more
Gerald M. Lohmann
The ongoing world-wide increase of installed photovoltaic (PV) power attracts notice to weather-induced PV power output variability. Understanding the underlying spatiotemporal volatility of solar radiation is essential to the successful outlining and sta... see more
Xiya Zhang and Haibo Hu
Extreme cold events (ECEs) have occurred more frequently over the last few winters in China, associated with large losses of human life and increasing costs. Here, copulas are used to establish a bivariate copula distribution model for ECE variables of du... see more
Coraline Wyard, Sébastien Doutreloup, Alexandre Belleflamme, Martin Wild and Xavier Fettweis
The use of regional climate models (RCMs) can partly reduce the biases in global radiative flux (Eg↓) that are found in reanalysis products and global models, as they allow for a finer spatial resolution and a finer parametrisation of surface and atm... see more
Akinori Mori
In Japan, it is important to recycle the nutrients in manure for forage production because most dairy cattle are fed inside, mainly with imported grain and home-grown roughage. To understand the overall effect of manure use on grassland on the net greenho... see more
Ling Li, Zhengwei He, Sheng Chen, Xiongfa Mai, Asi Zhang, Baoqing Hu, Zhi Li and Xinhua Tong
Short-term high-resolution quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF) is very important for flash-flood warning, navigation safety, and other hydrological applications. This paper proposes a subpixel-based QPF algorithm using a pyramid Lucas–Kanade opti... see more
Yongqiang Liu, Scott Goodrick and Gary Achtemeier
Weather is an important factor that determines smoke development, which is essential information for planning smoke field measurements. This study identifies the synoptic systems that would favor to produce the desired smoke plumes for the Fire and Smoke ... see more
Jessica M. Kleiss, Erin A. Riley, Charles N. Long, Laura D. Riihimaki, Larry K. Berg, Victor R. Morris and Evgueni Kassianov
We develop a new approach that resolves cloud area distributions of single-layer shallow cumuli from ground-based observations. Our simple and computationally inexpensive approach uses images obtained from a Total Sky Imager (TSI) and complementary inform... see more
Mahdi Abkar
A large-eddy simulation (LES) study of vertical-axis wind turbine wakes under uniform inflow conditions is performed. Emphasis is placed on exploring the effects of subgrid-scale (SGS) modeling on turbine loading as well as on the formation and developmen... see more