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Atmosphere, Volume 10, Issue 3

March 2019 - 59 articles

Cover Story: In this study, a coupling of the Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model and the Chemical Transport Model (CCAM-CTM) was undertaken, with 11 emission scenarios segregated from the 2008 New South Wales Greater Metropolitan Region (NSW GMR) Air Emission Inventory, to investigate major source contributions to ambient PM2.5 and exposure. The natural and human-made sources were found to contribute 60% (3.55 µg/m3) and 40% (2.41 µg/m3) to the population-weighted annual average PM2.5 (5.96 µg/m3), respectively. The major source groups “wood heaters”, “industry”, “on-road motor vehicles”, “power stations”, and “non-road diesel and marine” account for 31%, 26%, 19%, 17%, and 6% of the total human-made sources contribution, respectively. These quantitative results can be the basis for air quality management interventions that aim to deliver improved public health outcomes. View this paper.
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Articles (59)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,640 Views
13 Pages

14 March 2019

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has large impacts on Australia’s rainfall. A composite analysis technique was utilized to distinguish the impact of onset time of El Niño on summer rainfall over southeastern Australia. Su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,498 Views
11 Pages

14 March 2019

Marginal seas are fundamental to humans for their importance in mariculture resources and commerce. Based on the NOAA 0.25 degree daily Optimum Interpolation (OI) sea surface temperature (SST) data set, spatiotemporal changes in mean and extreme SST...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,537 Views
14 Pages

Features of K-Changes Observed in Sri Lanka in the Tropics

  • Sankha Nanayakkara,
  • Mahendra Fernando and
  • Vernon Cooray

14 March 2019

General characteristics of K-changes, including their duration and probability of occurrence associated with ground flashes in Sri Lanka in the tropics, together with their fine structure, are presented. In 98 ground flashes where the small step chan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,325 Views
12 Pages

Simulation of an Asian Dust Storm Event in May 2017

  • Ping Song,
  • Jianfang Fei,
  • Changshun Li and
  • Xiaogang Huang

13 March 2019

Dust particles in the atmosphere play an important role in air pollution, climate change, and biogeochemical cycles. Some of the dominant sources of dust in mid-latitude regions are in Asia. An intense dust storm engulfed Northern China at the beginn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,918 Views
19 Pages

New Interpretative Scales for Lichen Bioaccumulation Data: The Italian Proposal

  • Elva Cecconi,
  • Lorenzo Fortuna,
  • Renato Benesperi,
  • Elisabetta Bianchi,
  • Giorgio Brunialti,
  • Tania Contardo,
  • Luca Di Nuzzo,
  • Luisa Frati,
  • Fabrizio Monaci and
  • Silvana Munzi
  • + 7 authors

13 March 2019

The interpretation of lichen bioaccumulation data is of paramount importance in environmental forensics and decision-making processes. By implementing basic ideas underlying previous interpretative scales, new dimensionless, species-independent &ldqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,997 Views
20 Pages

Temporal Changes in Air Quality during a Festival Season in Kannur, India

  • Resmi CT,
  • Nishanth T,
  • Satheesh Kumar MK,
  • Balachandramohan M and
  • Valsaraj KT

13 March 2019

This study looked at the variation in air quality during the periods of fireworks as assessed from the change in ambient concentrations of air pollutants like particulate matter (PM10), O3, and NO2 for pre-, post-, and Vishu days for four consecutive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,730 Views
24 Pages

Major Source Contributions to Ambient PM2.5 and Exposures within the New South Wales Greater Metropolitan Region

  • Lisa T.-C. Chang,
  • Yvonne Scorgie,
  • Hiep Nguyen Duc,
  • Khalia Monk,
  • David Fuchs and
  • Toan Trieu

13 March 2019

The coupled Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model (CCAM) and Chemical Transport Model (CTM) (CCAM-CTM) was undertaken with eleven emission scenarios segregated from the 2008 New South Wales Greater Metropolitan Region (NSW GMR) Air Emission Inventory to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,426 Views
16 Pages

Extreme Weather Impacts on Inland Waterways Transport of Yangtze River

  • Lijun Liu,
  • Yuanqiao Wen,
  • Youjia Liang,
  • Fan Zhang and
  • Tiantian Yang

12 March 2019

The impact of extreme weather events on the navigation environment in the inland waterways of the Yangtze River is an interdisciplinary hotspot in subjects of maritime traffic safety and maritime meteorology, and it is also a difficult point for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,650 Views
15 Pages

12 March 2019

Using the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model, we tracked the paths of 46 autumn cold surges affecting North China from 1961 to 2014, and classified them by clustering analysis, thereby investigating their changes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,153 Views
18 Pages

Influence of Atmosphere Near-Surface Layer Properties on Development of Cloud Convection

  • Magomet T. Abshaev,
  • Robert G. Zakinyan,
  • Ali M. Abshaev,
  • Qasim Shakir Kadhim Al-Owaidi,
  • Ludmila M. Kulgina,
  • Arthur R. Zakinyan,
  • Youssef Wehbe,
  • Latifa Yousef,
  • Sufian Farrah and
  • Abdulla Al Mandous

11 March 2019

A two-dimensional mathematical model of moist air convection in the sub-cloud and cloud layers is proposed. A theoretical analysis of the influence of near ground atmospheric parameters on the development of sub-cloud and cloud convection is provided...

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