Atmosphere  

Christos H. Halios, Helena A. Flocas, Costas G. Helmis, Dimosthenis N. Asimakopoulos and Panagiotis G. Mouschouras

Linking synoptic circulation patterns to specific environmental problems is of significance in the Eastern Mediterranean region, which is characterized by increased seasonal climatic variability and a wealth of distinct weather patterns. This study aims t... see more

Lei Zhang, Xiao-bin Yin, Han-qing Shi and Ming-yuan He

Two new parameters (W6H and W6V) were defined that represent brightness temperature increments for different low-frequency channels due to ocean wind. We developed a new wind speed retrieval model inside hurricanes based on W6H and W6V using brightness te... see more

Li Dong, Chandana Mitra, Seth Greer and Ethan Burt

Atmospheric blocking is a long standing structure stalled in the mid-troposphere which is often associated with extreme weather events such as droughts, heatwaves, flood and cold air outbreak. A striking atmospheric blocking is identified to persist over ... see more

Kerry Milch, Kenneth Broad, Ben Orlove and Robert Meyer

Although the field has seen great advances in hurricane prediction and response, the economic toll from hurricanes on U.S. communities continues to rise. We present data from Hurricanes Earl (2010), Irene (2011), Isaac (2012), and Sandy (2012) to show tha... see more

Thang M. Luong, Christopher L. Castro, Truong M. Nguyen, William W. Cassell and Hsin-I Chang

A commonly noted problem in the simulation of warm season convection in the North American monsoon region has been the inability of atmospheric models at the meso-ß scales (10 s to 100 s of kilometers) to simulate organized convection, principally mesosca... see more

Ming Ma, Tao Sun, Hongxia Du and Dingyong Wang

Martin R. Risch and Donna M. Kenski

Shuang Liu, Wei Zhong, Yudi Liu and Jie Xiang

In this paper, the eigenmode linear superposition (ELS) method based on the regularization is used to discuss the distributions of all eigenmodes and the role of their instability to the intensity and structure change in TC-like vortex. Results show that ... see more

Konrad Bärfuss, Falk Pätzold, Barbara Altstädter, Endres Kathe, Stefan Nowak, Lutz Bretschneider, Ulf Bestmann and Astrid Lampert

The unmanned research aircraft ALADINA (Application of Light-weight Aircraft for Detecting in situ Aerosols) has been established as an important tool for boundary layer research. For simplified integration of additional sensor payload, a flexible and rel... see more

Andrew D. Jensen, Mirseid G. Akperov, Igor I. Mokhov, Anthony R. Lupo and Fengpeng Sun

The dynamic character of an enstrophy-based diagnostic, previously used in the study of atmospheric blocking, is examined here, in near-term future simulations from the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace Climate Model version 4 (IPSL-CM4) and version 5 (IPSL-C... see more

Mingquan Lü, Yi Jiang, Xunlai Chen, Jilong Chen, Shengjun Wu and Jun Liu

The Three Gorges Dam (TGD) is one of the largest hydroelectric projects in the world. Monitoring the spatiotemporal distribution of extreme precipitation offers valuable information for adaptation and mitigation strategies and reservoir management schemes... see more

Sergei Soldatenko, Chris Tingwell, Peter Steinle and Boris A. Kelly-Gerreyn

The impact of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s in situ observations (land and sea surface observations, upper air observations by radiosondes, pilot balloons, wind profilers, and aircraft observations) on the short-term forecast skill provided by th... see more

Zachary M. Menzo

Limited understanding of the climate system imposes upon policy makers an intimate reliance on results from Earth System Models (ESMs). However, climate simulations are necessarily incomplete since many strong channels through planetary scale biology and ... see more

Borut Jereb, Tanja Batkovic, Luka Herman, Gregor Šipek, Špela Kovše, Asta Gregoric and Griša Mocnik

Traffic air pollution significantly influences cyclists using cycling routes near main roads. We analyze the dependency of black carbon (BC) concentrations in relation to the proximity to their traffic sources. We performed static and mobile measurements ... see more

Pasan Hettiarachchi, Vernon Cooray, Gerhard Diendorfer, Hannes Pichler, Joseph Dwyer and Mahbubur Rahman

Satoru Chatani, Kazuyo Yamaji, Tatsuya Sakurai, Syuichi Itahashi, Hikari Shimadera, Kyo Kitayama and Hiroshi Hayami

The inter-comparison of regional air quality models is an effective way to understand uncertainty in ambient pollutant concentrations simulated using various model configurations, as well as to find ways to improve model performance. Based on the outcomes... see more

Agnieszka Wypych, Bogdan Bochenek and Michal Rózycki

Water vapor plays a major role in the process of radiation, cloud formation, energy exchange within a system, and remains a key component of the Earth’s atmosphere. The purpose of this study is to examine the water vapor content of the troposphere over Eu... see more

Joseph Ching, Matthew West and Nicole Riemer

Recent observational studies suggest that nucleation-scavenging is the principal path to removing black carbon-containing aerosol from the atmosphere, thus affecting black carbon’s lifetime and radiative forcing. Modeling the process of nucleation-scaveng... see more

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Michael Hughes, John K. Kodros, Jeffrey R. Pierce, Matthew West and Nicole Riemer

Atmospheric aerosols are evolving mixtures of chemical species. In global climate models (GCMs), this “aerosol mixing state” is represented in a highly simplified manner. This can introduce errors in the estimates of climate-relevant aerosol properties, s... see more

Ermioni Dimitropoulou, Vasiliki D. Assimakopoulos, Kyriaki M. Fameli, Helena A. Flocas, Panagiotis Kosmopoulos, Stelios Kazadzis, Kostas Lagouvardos and Elizabeth Bossioli

Biogenic emissions affect the urban air quality as they are ozone and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) precursors and should be taken into account when applying photochemical pollution models. The present study presents an estimation of the magnitude of no... see more

Nemanja Kovacevic and Katarina Veljovic

This sensitivity study examined the impact of drizzle on hailstorm characteristics and precipitation on the ground. A cloud-resolving mesoscale model with a two-moment bulk microphysical scheme is modified by introducing mixing ratio and number concentrat... see more

Ali Al-Hemoud, Ali Al-Dousari, Ahmad Al-Shatti, Ahmed Al-Khayat, Weam Behbehani and Mariam Malak

Andre Santos Nouri, Dominik Fröhlich, Maria Matos Silva and Andreas Matzarakis

Marek Pólrolniczak, Arkadiusz M. Tomczyk and Leszek Kolendowicz

The aim of the study was to characterise the occurrence of hot days and heat waves in Poznan in the 1966–2015 period, as well as to describe the thermal conditions in the city during selected heat waves between 2008 and 2015. The basis of the study was th... see more

Yu Huang, Hong-Li Ren, Robin Chadwick, Zhigang Cheng and Quanliang Chen

Changes of the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) variability in response to different climate forcings, and their possible causes, are decomposed and investigated using a set of atmosphere-only timeslice experiments forced by sea surface temperature... see more

Renying Gu, Dan Zhang, Anhua Liao, Huayu Shen, Xiaotong Zhao and Jingru Pan

Chi Vuong Nguyen, Lionel Soulhac and Pietro Salizzoni

Zhijie Ta, Ruide Yu, Xi Chen, Guijin Mu and Yanfei Guo

Drought has become an important threat to industrial and agricultural production and human activities in Central Asia. Using the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), we explored the spatial and temporal patterns of dry and wet chang... see more

Songyan Zhu, Xiaoying Li, Chao Yu, Hongmei Wang, Yapeng Wang and Jing Miao

The widespread distribution and strong seasonal pattern of highly concentrated summertime formaldehyde (HCHO) were observed using data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) onboard Aura satellite from 2005 to 2015 in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, China. The... see more