Atmosphere  

Luc Dekoninck and Luc Int Panis

Glwadys Pouzet, Elodie Peghaire, Maxime Aguès, Jean-Luc Baray, Franz Conen and Pierre Amato

Atmospheric ice nucleating particles (INPs) contribute to initiate precipitation. In particular, biological INPs act at warmer temperatures than other types of particles (>-10 °C) therefore potentially defining precipitation distribution. Here, in orde... see more

Samin Poudel, Marc N. Fiddler, Damon Smith, K. M. Flurchick and Solomon Bililign

The refractive index (RI) is an important parameter in describing the radiative impacts of aerosols. It is important to constrain the RI of aerosol components, since there is still significant uncertainty regarding the RI of biomass burning aerosols. Expe... see more

Katrin Zenker, Matthias Vonwiller, Sönke Szidat, Giulia Calzolai, Martina Giannoni, Vera Bernardoni, Aleksandra D. Jedynska, Bas Henzing, Harro A. J. Meijer and Ulrike Dusek

Radiocarbon analysis is a widely-used tool for source apportionment of aerosol particles. One of the big challenges of this method, addressed in this work, is to isolate elemental carbon (EC) for 14C analysis. In the first part of the study, we validate a... see more

Guangming Shi, Ruiling Liu, Ding Yi Wang and Fumo Yang

Angelica Bianco, Mickaël Vaïtilingom, Maxime Bridoux, Nadine Chaumerliac, Jean-Marc Pichon, Jean-Luc Piro and Laurent Deguillaume

Stefan Muthers, Gudrun Laschewski and Andreas Matzarakis

After 2003, another hot summer took place in Western and Central Europe in 2015. In this study, we compare the characteristics of the two major heat waves of these two summers and their effect on the heat related mortality. The analysis is performed with ... see more

Peng Wang, Shangjun Ning, Jiageng Dai, Jingmin Sun, Mingjia Lv, Qingli Song, Xin Dai, Jinrong Zhao and Dajiang Yu

This study analyzed the variability and trend in aerosol optical depth (AOD) over North China using the latest MODIS/Terra C6 merged Dark Target/Deep Blue AOD monthly data at 550 nm from 2001 to 2016. The spatial distribution of the annual mean AOD was ge... see more

Qiao Wang, Qing Li, Zhongting Wang, Hui Chen, Huiqin Mao and Cuihong Chen

In recent years, large-area heavy haze pollution cases occur frequently in eastern China, especially evident in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the surrounding regions. In order to operationally monitor the process of larger regional heavy haze events, a type o... see more

Willy Maenhaut, Xuguang Chi, Wan Wang, Jan Cafmeyer, Farhat Yasmeen, Reinhilde Vermeylen, Katarzyna Szmigielska, Ivan A. Janssens and Magda Claeys

Yeweon Kim, Hi-Kyoung Jang and Ki-Hyung Yu

Accurate standard meteorological data sets for each city are essential elements to assess and analyze high-performance buildings quantitatively in order to ensure that they comply with energy saving policies of the nation. ECO2, which is an assessment pro... see more

Akintayo T. Abolude, Wen Zhou and Yu Ting Leung

Recent developments have emphasized the global impacts of climate change and have renewed commitments in renewable energy and energy meteorology. Wind energy depends largely on prevailing meteorological conditions on both local and large scales, thus, win... see more

Vera Bernardoni, Rosaria Erika Pileci, Lorenzo Caponi and Dario Massabò

The multi-wavelength absorption analyzer model (MWAA model) was recently proposed to provide a source (fossil fuel combustion vs. wood burning) and a component (black carbon BC vs. brown carbon BrC) apportionment of babs measured at different wavelengths,... see more

Madhu Gyawali, W. Patrick Arnott, Rahul A. Zaveri, Chen Song, Bradley Flowers, Manvendra K. Dubey, Ari Setyan, Qi Zhang, Swarup China, Claudio Mazzoleni, Kyle Gorkowski, R. Subramanian and Hans Moosmüller

We present the evolution of multispectral optical properties through urban aerosols that have aged and interacted with biogenic emissions, resulting in stronger short wavelength absorption and the formation of moderately brown secondary organic aerosols. ... see more

Liyang Zhan, Man Wu, Liqi Chen, Jixia Zhang, Yuhong Li and Jian Liu

Nitrous oxide is a trace gas with two global environmental effects: it depletes stratospheric ozone and contributes to the greenhouse effect. Oceans are one of the most significant nitrous oxide sources; however, there are ocean areas whose contributions ... see more

M. Elias Dueker, Gregory D. O’Mullan, Joaquín Martínez Martínez, Andrew R. Juhl and Kathleen C. Weathers

Zhaochen Liu, Meixue Yang, Guoning Wan and Xuejia Wang

The Tibetan Plateau (TP), which is well known as “The Third Pole”, is of great importance to climate change in East Asia, and even the whole world. In this paper, we selected the monthly temperature (including the monthly mean and the maximum and minimum ... see more

Hongxia Liu, Kimitaka Kawamura, Bhagawati Kunwar, Junji Cao, Jiaquan Zhang, Changlin Zhan, Jingru Zheng, Ruizhen Yao, Ting Liu, Xianli Liu and Wensheng Xiao

PM10 samples were collected from Huangshi (HS) city, Central China during April 2012 to March 2013, and were analyzed for short-chain saturated dicarboxylic acids (diacids) using a capillary gas chromatograph (GC). We found that oxalic acid (C2, 318 ± 104... see more

Miao Zhang, Geping Luo, Rafiq Hamdi, Yuan Qiu, Xinxin Wang, Philippe De Maeyer and Alishir Kurban

Barry Baker and Li Pan

This paper describes the development and initial applications of the Model and Observation Evaluation Tool (MONET) v1.0. MONET was developed to evaluate the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) for the NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capabilit... see more

Jihui Yuan, Craig Farnham and Kazuo Emura

The built environment with respect to building envelope designs and the surrounding micro-environment significantly affects building energy use. The influence of the inter-building effect (IBE) on building energy use cannot be ignored and thermal properti... see more

Juan A. Añel, Manuel Fernández-González, Xavier Labandeira, Xiral López-Otero and Laura De la Torre

Cold and heat waves represent a significant problem for the electricity generation sector. The disruptions cold and heat waves can cause in power production are beyond their consumption impacts through, for instance, higher peak demand. Unexpected stops a... see more

Guirong Xu, Xinan Yue, Wengang Zhang and Xia Wan

Atmosperic profiles derived from Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) radio occultation (RO) measurements make up for the lack of operational radiosonde soundings with a high spatiotemporal distribution, and the... see more

Petr Chylek, Manvendra K. Dubey, Nicholas Hengartner and James D. Klett

We analyze the past (1900–2015) temperature and precipitation changes in nine separate US climate regions. We find that the temperature increased in a statistically significant (95% confidence level equivalent to alpha level of 0.05) manner in all of thes... see more