22 articles in this issue
Peter Sheridan, Simon Vosper and Philip Brown
An automated method producing a diagnostic of the severity of lee waves and their impacts on surface winds as represented in output from a high resolution linear numerical model (3D velocities over mountains (3DVOM)) covering several areas of the U.K. is ... see more
Shao-Shu Chu, Ben-Ran Fu, Shih-Cheng Hu and Shih-Jie Jhou
This study numerically investigates the effects of a moving crane and airflow on contaminant removal efficiency of various reticle box coverage sequences in a stocker. The analyzed characteristics of flow patterns are used to protect the reticles from con... see more
Shikai Song, Jianli Ding, Zhaolei Zong, Aixia Yang and Geping Luo
In this work, rain totals from 1960–2014, obtained during the warm season (May to October) from 52 meteorological stations, over Xinjiang, China were classified as either light, moderate, or heavy rain in two sub-regions (northern and southern). Spatial a... see more
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With the goal of recognizing outstanding contributions to the ?eld of atmosphere sciences by early-career investigators, including postdoctoral fellows, assistant professors, or equivalent, and assisting them in attending international conferences in 2017... see more
Fernanda Carmen Fuoco, Luca Stabile, Giorgio Buonanno, Mauro Scungio, Maurizio Manigrasso and Andrea Frattolillo
Cigarette smoke is the main cause of lung cancer events. Mainstream cigarette smoke (MSS) is a direct concern for smokers, but also the secondhand smoke (SHS) contributes to the smoker exposure. In addition, smoker exposure is affected by the “free-smoke”... see more
Peng Lu, Hua Zhang and Jinxiu Wu
Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) has the potential to make a growing contribution to the Earth’s radiative budget. In this study, the global mean radiative efficiency of NF3 is calculated as 0.188 W·m-2·ppb-1 by line-by-line method. Global warming potentials of... see more
Xiaoquan Song, Xiaochun Zhai, Liping Liu and Songhua Wu
In the project of the Third Tibetan Plateau Experiment of Atmospheric Science (TIPEX III), the intensive observation of cloud and precipitation in Nagqu was conducted from 1 July to 31 August 2014. The CL31 ceilometer and a WAter vapor, Cloud and Aerosol ... see more
Qiang Xing, Bingfang Wu, Nana Yan, Mingzhao Yu and Weiwei Zhu
Yujing Zhang, Liang Fu, Jie Pan and Yinlong Xu
Temperature extremes can cause disastrous impacts on ecological and social economic systems. China is very sensitive to climate change, as its warming rate exceeds that of the global mean level. This paper focused on the spatial and temporal changes of th... see more
Xuehua Li, Jianxin He, Chuanzhi Wang, Shunxian Tang and Xiaoyu Hou
Surface clutter interference will be one of the important problems for the future of geostationary spaceborne weather radar (GSWR). The aim of this work is to provide some numerical analyses on surface clutter interference and part of the performance eval... see more
Ivana Stiperski, Stefano Serafin, Alexandre Paci, Hálfdán Ágústsson, Anne Belleudy, Radiance Calmer, Kristian Horvath, Christoph Knigge, Johannes Sachsperger, Lukas Strauss and Vanda Grubišic
In this article, we present an overview of the HyIV-CNRS-SecORo (Hydralab IV-CNRS-Secondary Orography and Rotors Experiments) laboratory experiments carried out in the CNRM (Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques) large stratified water flume. The ... see more
Raheel Anjum, Xiubin He, Javed Iqbal Tanoli and Syed Turab Raza
Annual temperature data from thirty meteorological stations in Pakistan’s major urban areas were selected to investigate trends in annual average and maximum temperature during 1970–2009. A combination of parametric and non-parametric tests including line... see more
Hansoo Lee and Sungshin Kim
Junfei Qiao, Jie Cai, Honggui Han and Jianxian Cai
This study aims to develop a second order self-organizing fuzzy neural network (SOFNN) to predict the hourly concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) for the next 24 h at a regional background station called Shangdianzi (SDZ) in China from 14 to ... see more
Yiyao Zhang, Zheng Sheng, Hanqing Shi, Shudao Zhou, Weilai Shi, Huadong Du and Zhiqiang Fan
The properties of the long-term oscillations in the middle atmosphere have been investigated using the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) temperature data and Fabry–Perot interferometer (FPI) data. Results for SABER tem... see more
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Guanhua Zhou, Yue Zhang, Zhongqi Ma, Wujian Xu, Kai Zhang, Junhui Liu and Yumin Tan
Miguel A. C. Teixeira
A linear model is used to diagnose the onset of rotors in flow over 2D hills, for atmospheres that are neutrally stratified near the surface and stably stratified aloft, with a sharp temperature inversion in between, where trapped lee waves may propagate.... see more
Ariadi Hazmi, Primas Emeraldi, Muhammad Imran Hamid, Nobuyuki Takagi and Daohong Wang
The characteristics of 77 electric field changes of positive cloud to ground (CG) flashes in the tropics of Indonesia were investigated. It was found that the arithmetic mean (AM) and geometric mean (GM) values for 0%–100% and 10%–90% rise time were 12.7 ... see more
Lu Zhao, Xiaoxiu Lun, Renna Li, Yingying Cao, Fengbin Sun and Xinxiao Yu
Water-soluble ions such as sulfate may have great impacts on atmospheric pollution. To determine the deposition effect of PM2.5 sulfates, the major PM2.5 constituents, in the forest canopy in Beijing, China, an investigation was carried out in an urban fo... see more
Joshua S. Kastman, Patrick S. Market, Scott M. Rochette and Anthony R. Lupo
The Rossby radius of deformation is a parameter that describes the relative role of buoyant and inertial forces for atmospheric phenomena in a flow regime. It will be demonstrated that it can also be used to determine whether or not forcing for vertical m... see more
Liang Zhai, Bin Zou, Xin Fang, Yanqing Luo, Neng Wan and Shuang Li