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Atmosphere, Volume 11, Issue 2

February 2020 - 100 articles

Cover Story: The increasing global energy demand and the target of reducing anthropogenic emissions affecting the climate are leading to an era of renewable energy. Countries with long coastlines exposed to open sea such as Norway have the potential to harvest wave energy in order to partially satisfy domestic and European energy demands. Our study aims to shed new light on the spatiotemporal assessment of wave energy flux in the Nordic Seas, individually for wind-sea and swell conditions, using a 59-year hindcast (NORA10). The highest wave energy flux is evidenced in winter, in the Norwegian Sea, where swell conditions are dominant. During calm wind conditions, reduced wind power production could be compensated by wave power from swell originating from the Atlantic Ocean. View this paper.
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Articles (100)

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,718 Views
6 Pages

22 February 2020

Odor measurement is a crucial element of odor management and regulation. This paper introduced a collaborative implementation of interlaboratory evaluation of olfactometry between Japan and China. An international comparison of olfactometry using the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,311 Views
15 Pages

Estimating Turbulent Fluxes in the Tropical Andes

  • Mario Córdova,
  • Linda Bogerd,
  • Paul Smeets and
  • Galo Carrillo-Rojas

21 February 2020

The correct estimation of Sensible Heat Flux (H) and Latent Heat Flux (LE) (i.e., turbulent fluxes) is vital in the understanding of exchange of energy and mass among hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere in an ecosystem. One of the most popular met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,006 Views
19 Pages

Radar-Based Precipitation Climatology in Germany—Developments, Uncertainties and Potentials

  • Jennifer Kreklow,
  • Björn Tetzlaff,
  • Benjamin Burkhard and
  • Gerald Kuhnt

21 February 2020

Precipitation is a crucial driver for many environmental processes and weather radars are capable of providing precipitation information with high spatial and temporal resolution. However, radar-based quantitative precipitation estimates (QPE) are al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,503 Views
18 Pages

21 February 2020

A personalized thermal environment is an effective way to ensure a good thermal sensation for individuals. Since local thermal sensation and temperature distribution are affected by individual physiological differences, it is necessary to study the e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,898 Views
12 Pages

The Global Distribution of Cirrus Clouds Reflectance Based on MODIS Level-3 Data

  • Fengmei Zhao,
  • Chaoli Tang,
  • Congming Dai,
  • Xin Wu and
  • Heli Wei

21 February 2020

Cirrus clouds are crucially important to weather, climate and earth energy balance studies. The distribution of cirrus reflectance with latitude and season is an interesting topic in atmospheric sciences. The monthly mean Level-3 MODIS cirrus reflect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,544 Views
21 Pages

21 February 2020

Hazardous heavy rainfall and wide-scale inundation occurred in the Kinugawa River basin, north of Tokyo, in 2015. In this study, ensemble hindcast and non-global warming (NGW) simulations of this heavy rainfall event were implemented. In the NGW simu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,157 Views
14 Pages

20 February 2020

A persistent strong cold surge occurred in East Asia in late January 2018, causing mean near-surface air temperature in China to hit the second lowest since 1984. Moreover, the daily mean air temperature remained persistently negative for more than 2...

  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
15,492 Views
26 Pages

20 February 2020

Based on an analysis of related core papers and reports, this review presents a historical perspective on ambient air pollution and ambient air quality development in the modern-day Czech Republic (CR) over the past seven decades, i.e., from the 1950...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,520 Views
28 Pages

Uncertainties in the Annual Cycle of Rainfall Characteristics over West Africa in CMIP5 Models

  • Magatte Sow,
  • Moussa Diakhaté,
  • Ross D. Dixon,
  • Françoise Guichard,
  • Diarra Dieng and
  • Amadou T. Gaye

20 February 2020

We analyse uncertainties associated with the main features of the annual cycle of West African rainfall (amplitude, timing, duration) in 15 CMIP5 simulations over the Sahelian and Guinean regions with satellite daily precipitation estimates. The annu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,736 Views
16 Pages

Characterization of the Gaseous and Odour Emissions from the Composting of Conventional Sewage Sludge

  • Daniel González,
  • Nagore Guerra,
  • Joan Colón,
  • David Gabriel,
  • Sergio Ponsá and
  • Antoni Sánchez

19 February 2020

Many different alternatives exist to manage and treat sewage sludge, all with the common drawback of causing environmental and odour impacts. The main objective of this work is to present a full inventory of the gaseous and odorous emissions generate...

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