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Atmosphere, Volume 11, Issue 12

December 2020 - 116 articles

Cover Story: The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the Earth’s regions with the strongest warming since the mid-20th century. However, its northwest region cooled from 2000 to 2015. Increased snow accumulation was recorded in Livingston Island between 2009 and 2014, with sites that were snow-free in the summer becoming snow covered. The ground thermal regimes from two boreholes show the effects of the increasing snow insulation, resulting in the disappearance of the active layer and on permafrost aggradation. This regime shift may be used as an analogue for the transition from subaerial periglacial to subglacial ground thermal conditions. View this paper
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Articles (116)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,532 Views
15 Pages

21 December 2020

Mitigating high air temperatures and heat waves is vital for decreasing air pollution and protecting public health. To improve understanding of microscale urban air temperature variation, this paper performed measurements of air temperature and relat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,978 Views
20 Pages

Circulation Specific Precipitation Patterns over Svalbard and Projected Future Changes

  • Andreas Dobler,
  • Julia Lutz,
  • Oskar Landgren and
  • Jan Erik Haugen

21 December 2020

Precipitation on Svalbard can generally be linked to the atmospheric circulation in the Northern Atlantic. Using an automated circulation type classification, we show that weather type statistics are well represented in the Max Planck Institute Earth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,175 Views
10 Pages

Atmospheric Mercury Deposition in Macedonia from 2002 to 2015 Determined Using the Moss Biomonitoring Technique

  • Trajče Stafilov,
  • Lambe Barandovski,
  • Robert Šajn and
  • Katerina Bačeva Andonovska

21 December 2020

The moss biomonitoring technique was used in 2002, 2005, 2010 and 2015 in a potentially toxic elements study (PTEs) in Macedonia. For that purpose, more than 70 moss samples from two dominant species (Hypnum cupressiforme and Homalothecium lutescens)...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,357 Views
16 Pages

21 December 2020

Coupled fire-atmosphere models are simulators that integrate a fire component and an atmospheric component, with the objective of capturing interactions between the fire and atmosphere. As a fire releases energy in the combustion process, the surroun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,980 Views
16 Pages

Increases in Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Concentrations Observed after Rains at Six Forest Sites in Non-Summer Periods

  • Takafumi Miyama,
  • Tomoaki Morishita,
  • Yuji Kominami,
  • Hironori Noguchi,
  • Yukio Yasuda,
  • Natsuko Yoshifuji,
  • Michiaki Okano,
  • Katsumi Yamanoi,
  • Yasuko Mizoguchi and
  • Satoru Takanashi
  • + 2 authors

21 December 2020

Since biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) are important precursors of ozone, the monitoring of the BVOC concentration distributions is needed. In general, forest BVOC concentrations increase in summer as well as in other seasons. This study a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,855 Views
24 Pages

Characteristics of Clouds and Raindrop Size Distribution in Xinjiang, Using Cloud Radar Datasets and a Disdrometer

  • Yong Zeng,
  • Lianmei Yang,
  • Zuyi Zhang,
  • Zepeng Tong,
  • Jiangang Li,
  • Fan Liu,
  • Jinru Zhang and
  • Yufei Jiang

21 December 2020

Observation data from March to May 2020 of the Ka-band millimeter-wave cloud radar and disdrometer, located in Xinjiang, a typical arid region of China, were used to study the diurnal variation of clouds and precipitation, raindrop size distribution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,744 Views
13 Pages

A 5000-Year Sedimentary Record of East Asian Winter Monsoon from the Northern Muddy Area of the East China Sea

  • Yanping Chen,
  • Yan Li,
  • Wenzhe Lyu,
  • Dong Xu,
  • Xibin Han,
  • Tengfei Fu and
  • Liang Yi

20 December 2020

The variability of the winter monsoon is one of the key components of the Asian monsoon, significantly influencing paleoenvironmental evolution in East Asia. However, whether the winter or the summer monsoon is the dominated factor controlling sedime...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,498 Views
25 Pages

19 December 2020

Observed groundwater level records are relatively short (<100 years), limiting long-term studies of groundwater variability that could provide valuable insight into climate change effects. This study uses tree ring data from the International Tree...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,037 Views
19 Pages

19 December 2020

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly important role in various areas of life, including in terms of protection and security. As a result of fires, volcanic eruptions, or other emergencies, huge amounts of toxic gases, dust, and other...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,193 Views
26 Pages

Graz Lagrangian Model (GRAL) for Pollutants Tracking and Estimating Sources Partial Contributions to Atmospheric Pollution in Highly Urbanized Areas

  • Aleksey A. Romanov,
  • Boris A. Gusev,
  • Egor V. Leonenko,
  • Anastasia N. Tamarovskaya,
  • Alexander S. Vasiliev,
  • Nikolai E. Zaytcev and
  • Ilia K. Philippov

19 December 2020

Computational modeling allows studying the air quality problems in depth and provides the best solution reducing the population risks. This research demonstrates the Graz Lagrangian model effectiveness for assessing emission sources contributions to...

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Atmosphere - ISSN 2073-4433