20 articles in this issue
Kuai Liang, Hanqing Shi, Pinglv Yang and Xiaoran Zhao
The characteristics of convective clouds on infrared brightness temperature (BTIR) and brightness temperature difference (BTD) image were analyzed using successive Infrared and Visible Spin-Scan Radiometer (VISSR) data of FY-2, and an integrated detection... see more
Hakki Baltaci
In this study, the influence of an extraordinary Saharan dust episode over Turkey on 23–24 March 2016 and the atmospheric conditions that triggered this event were evaluated in detail. PM10 (particulate matter less than 10 µm) observations from 97 air qua... see more
Giovanni Lonati, Senem Ozgen, Giovanna Ripamonti and Stefano Signorini
Cyclists might experience increased air pollution exposure, due to the proximity to traffic, and higher intake, due to their active travel mode and higher ventilation. Several local factors, like meteorology, road and traffic features, and bike lanes feat... see more
Binod Pokharel, Bart Geerts, Xia Chu and Philip Bergmaier
This study describes a downslope wind storm event observed over the Medicine Bow range (Wyoming, USA) on 11 January 2013. The University of Wyoming King Air (UWKA) made four along-wind passes over a five-hour period over the mountain of interest. These pa... see more
Rogert Sorí, Raquel Nieto, Anita Drumond and Luis Gimeno
The Niger River basin (NRB) is located in the important climatic region of the African Sahel. In this study we use the Lagrangian tridimensional model FLEXPART v9.0 to identify and characterise the moisture sources for the NRB. This method allows the inte... see more
Rong Zhang, Zhao-Yue Chen, Chun-Quan Ou and Yan Zhuang
The global climate has changed significantly, characterized by the warming of the surface air temperature, which seriously affects public health. We examined the trends of extreme temperatures, heat waves and cold spells in a subtropical city of Guangzhou... see more
Joshua S. Kastman, Patrick S. Market, Neil I. Fox, Alzina L. Foscato and Anthony R. Lupo
There are differences in the character of surface-based and elevated convection, and one type may pose a greater threat to life or property. The lightning and rainfall characteristics of eight elevated and eight surface-based thunderstorm cases that occur... see more
Xiaofeng Zhao and Pinglv Yang
This paper introduces a simple two-dimensional ray-tracing visual tool, Ray-VT, for simulating propagations in the tropospheric environment. It is capable of tracing ray paths through range-dependent refractive conditions as well as arbitrary terrain case... see more
Mario Montopoli, Nicoletta Roberto, Elisa Adirosi, Eugenio Gorgucci and Luca Baldini
Near surface quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) from weather radar measurements is an important task for feeding hydrological models, limiting the impact of severe rain events at the ground as well as aiding validation studies of satellite-based ... see more
Elis Dener Lima Alves and António Lopes
This study analyzes the influence of urban-geographical variables on determining heat islands and proposes a model to estimate and spatialize the maximum intensity of urban heat islands (UHI). Simulations of the UHI based on the increase of normalized dif... see more
Shuqin Tao, Xijie Yin, Liping Jiao, Shuhui Zhao and Liqi Chen
This study describes an analysis of ambient aerosols in a southeastern coastal city of China (Xiamen) in order to assess the temporal variability in the concentrations and sources of organic aerosols (OA). Molecular-level measurements based on a series of... see more
Marta Vázquez, Raquel Nieto, Anita Drumond and Luis Gimeno
The Arctic system has experienced in recent times an extreme reduction in the extent of its sea ice. The years 2007 and 2012 in particular showed maxima in the loss of sea ice. It has been suggested that such a rapid decrease has important implications fo... see more
Arkadiusz M. Tomczyk, Marek Pólrolniczak and Ewa Bednorz
This article aims to describe the occurrence of heat waves in Western and Southwestern Europe in the period 1976–2015 and determining pressure patterns that cause a persistence of hot days. A hot day was defined as a day on which the daily maximum air tem... see more
Andrew Mahre, Tian-You Yu, Robert D. Palmer and James M. Kurdzo
While the vertical structure of cold fronts has been studied using various methods, previous research has shown that traditional methods of observing meteorological phenomena (such as pencil-beam radars in PPI/volumetric mode) are not well-suited for reso... see more
Mohd Muzafar Ismail, Mahbubur Rahman, Vernon Cooray, Mahendra Fernando, Pasan Hettiarachchi and Dalina Johari
In this study, electromagnetic field radiation bursts known as chaotic pulse trains (CPTs) and regular pulse trains (RPTs) generated by lightning flashes were analyzed. Through a numerical analysis it was found that a typical CPT could be generated by sup... see more
Robinson I. Negrón-Juárez, Hillary S. Jenkins, Carlos F. M. Raupp, William J. Riley, Lara M. Kueppers, Daniel Magnabosco Marra, Gabriel H. P. M. Ribeiro, Maria Terezinha F. Monteiro, Luis A. Candido, Jeffrey Q. Chambers and Niro Higuchi
Windthrows are a recurrent disturbance in Amazonia and are an important driver of forest dynamics and carbon storage. In this study, we present for the first time the seasonal and interannual variability of windthrows, focusing on Central Amazonia, and di... see more
Colin C. Triplett, Richard L. Collins, Kim Nielsen, V. Lynn Harvey and Kohei Mizutani
The meteorological control of gravity wave activity through ?ltering by winds and generation by spontaneous adjustment of unbalanced ?ows is investigated. This investigation is based on a new analysis of Rayleigh LiDAR measurements of gravity wave activit... see more
Pengguo Zhao, Yunjun Zhou, Hui Xiao, Jia Liu, Jinhui Gao and Fei Ge
Twelve years of measurements of aerosol optical depth (AOD), cloud fraction, cloud top height, ice cloud optical thickness and lightning flash density from 2001 to 2012 have been analyzed to investigate the effect of aerosols on electrical activity over a... see more
Andrea Antonini, Samantha Melani, Manuela Corongiu, Stefano Romanelli, Alessandro Mazza, Alberto Ortolani and Bernardo Gozzini
In the last few years, the number of worldwide operational X-band weather radars has rapidly been growing, thanks to an established technology that offers reliability, high performance, and reduced efforts and costs for installation and maintenance, with ... see more
Edson R. Carrillo-Torres, Iván Y. Hernández-Paniagua and Alberto Mendoza