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Atmosphere, Volume 11, Issue 3

March 2020 - 92 articles

Cover Story: One of the most crucial applications of radar-based precipitation nowcasting systems is the short-term forecast of extreme rainfall. A novel method to improve deep learning prediction skills of extreme rainfall regimes is presented based on model stacking. A convolutional neural network is trained to combine an ensemble of deep learning models along with orographic features, doubling the prediction skills with respect to the ensemble members and their average on extreme rain rates, and outperforming them on all rain regimes. The ensemble is built by training four models with the same architecture over different rainfall thresholds. This combination can reach the same skill of Lagrangian persistence on extreme rain rates while retaining a superior performance on lower rain regimes. View this paper.
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Articles (92)

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,746 Views
21 Pages

A Statistical Investigation of Mesoscale Precursors of Significant Tornadoes: The Italian Case Study

  • Roberto Ingrosso,
  • Piero Lionello,
  • Mario Marcello Miglietta and
  • Gianfausto Salvadori

20 March 2020

In this study, mesoscale environments associated with 57 significant tornadoes occurring over Italy in the period 2000–2018 are analyzed. The role of the vertical Wind Shear in the lower and middle troposphere, in terms of low-level shear (LLS)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,985 Views
15 Pages

Irrigation Groundwater Quality Characteristics: A Case Study of Cyprus

  • Georgios Nikolaou,
  • Damianos Neocleous,
  • Christos Christophi,
  • Theodosia Heracleous and
  • Marinos Markou

20 March 2020

This study was conducted in order to investigate possible quality changes in Cyprus’ groundwater resources over a 10-year period of pumping and to check the suitability of primary irrigation water. Water samples (n = 890) from private wells in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
4,354 Views
17 Pages

20 March 2020

Long-term precipitation trend is a good indicator of climate and hydrological change. The data from 635 ground stations are used to quantify the temporal trends of precipitation with different intensity in China from 1961 to 2016. These sites are rou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,372 Views
18 Pages

Warm Rain in Southern West Africa: A Case Study at Savè

  • Irene Reinares Martínez,
  • Jean-Pierre Chaboureau and
  • Jan Handwerker

19 March 2020

A warm-rain episode over southern West Africa is analyzed using unprecedented X-band radar observations from Savè, Benin and a Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) over a 240 × 240 km 2 domain. While warm rain contributes to 1% of the tot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,036 Views
20 Pages

19 March 2020

Numerical weather prediction (NWP) models produce a quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF), which is vital for a wide range of applications, especially for accurate flash flood forecasting. The under- and over-estimation of forecast uncertainty po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,161 Views
21 Pages

A Building-Block Urban Meteorological Observation Experiment (BBMEX) Campaign in Central Commercial Area in Seoul

  • Moon-Soo Park,
  • Jae-Young Byon,
  • Baek-Jo Kim,
  • Woosuk Choi,
  • Kwang-Min Myung,
  • Sang-Hyun Lee,
  • Tae-Il Cho,
  • Jung-Hoon Chae,
  • Jae-Sik Min and
  • Minsoo Kang
  • + 3 authors

19 March 2020

High-resolution meteorological information is essential for attaining sustainable and resilient cities. To elucidate high-resolution features of surface and air temperatures in high-rise building blocks (BBs), a 3-dimensional BB meteorological observ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,590 Views
18 Pages

18 March 2020

This work analyses new climate data on Southern Spain during the period 1792–1808. The data source is the periodical Correo Mercantil de España y sus Indias (Mercantile Mail of Spain and the Spanish Indies), which published weekly summar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,983 Views
13 Pages

Tourists’ Perceptions on Climate Change in Lisbon Region

  • Filomena Clemente,
  • António Lopes and
  • Vitor Ambrósio

18 March 2020

The interface between climate change and tourism is multifaceted and complex. This research aims to understand the relationship established between the tourists’ concerns regarding the impacts of climate change and the risks that may arise and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,403 Views
18 Pages

O3 Sensitivity and Contributions of Different NMHC Sources in O3 Formation at Urban and Suburban Sites in Shanghai

  • Haotian Lin,
  • Ming Wang,
  • Yusen Duan,
  • Qingyan Fu,
  • Wenhao Ji,
  • Huxiong Cui,
  • Dan Jin,
  • Yanfen Lin and
  • Kun Hu

17 March 2020

Ground-level ozone (O3) pollution is still one of the priorities and challenges for air pollution control in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region of China. Understanding the relationship of O3 with its precursors and contributions of different source...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,020 Views
25 Pages

16 March 2020

This paper demonstrates the role of meteorology and air transport in influencing the South African atmospheric CO2 distribution. CO2 data from December 2004 to December 2009 acquired by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) instrument onboard...

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Atmosphere - ISSN 2073-4433