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Atmosphere, Volume 12, Issue 3

March 2021 - 124 articles

Cover Story: Historic wildfires were recorded in Central Chile in the summer of 2017. From these records, satellite data and modeling revealed a massive plume, which affected atmospheric composition, meteorology and cloud cover over 2000 km and as high as 7 km altitude. The air quality in Santiago dramatically worsened across several consecutive days. Large amounts of pollutants were deposited over land and the ocean, having a wide range of possible environmental consequences. Fire-generated aerosols significantly thickened the clouds over the Pacific Ocean and decreased surface radiation over land, which has led to cooler temperatures and a shallower mixing layer. These implications are paramount for the future regional climate as events of this magnitude might begin to occur more frequently. View this paper
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Articles (124)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,808 Views
23 Pages

23 March 2021

This paper presents the development of the global to mesoscale air quality forecast and analysis system (GMAF) and its application to particulate matter under 2.5 μm (PM2.5) forecast in Korea. The GMAF combined a mesoscale model with a global data as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,068 Views
26 Pages

Airborne Testing of 2-μm Pulsed IPDA Lidar for Active Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

  • Tamer F. Refaat,
  • Mulugeta Petros,
  • Charles W. Antill,
  • Upendra N. Singh,
  • Yonghoon Choi,
  • James V. Plant,
  • Joshua P. Digangi and
  • Anna Noe

23 March 2021

The capability of an airborne 2-μm integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) lidar for high-accuracy and high-precision active remote sensing of weighted-average column dry-air volume mixing ratio of atmospheric carbon dioxide (XCO2) is demonstr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,732 Views
18 Pages

Trends in Different Grades of Precipitation over the Yangtze River Basin from 1960 to 2017

  • Mulan Hu,
  • Manyu Dong,
  • Xiangyou Tian,
  • Leixin Wang and
  • Yuan Jiang

23 March 2021

Under the background of global warming, the trends and variabilities of different grades of precipitation have significant effects on the management of regional ecosystems and water resources. Based on a daily precipitation dataset collected from 148...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,684 Views
12 Pages

23 March 2021

The Himalaya is one of the major mountain ecosystems that is most likely to be impacted by climate change. The main drawback in understanding climate change in the remote Himalayan ecosystems is the lack of long-term instrumental climate records. Rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,706 Views
18 Pages

21 March 2021

The prescribed anthropogenic aerosol forcing recommended by Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) was implemented in an atmospheric model. With the reduced complexity of anthropogenic aerosol forcing, each component of anthropogenic a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,449 Views
14 Pages

21 March 2021

In order to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, governments have implemented several restrictive measures (lockdown, stay-in-place, and quarantine policies). These provisions have drastically changed the routines of residents, altering environmental condi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,460 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of the Variation in Weather and Season on WRF Dynamical Downscaling in the Pearl River Delta Region

  • Chengwei Zhang,
  • Jianjun He,
  • Xin Lai,
  • Yilin Liu,
  • Huizheng Che and
  • Sunling Gong

21 March 2021

In this study, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Final (FNL) operational global analysis data and meteorological observation data from 2013 to 2017 were used to evaluate the impact of seasonal changes and different circulation clas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,893 Views
29 Pages

Analysis of Extreme Meteorological Events in the Central Andes of Peru Using a Set of Specialized Instruments

  • José Luis Flores-Rojas,
  • Yamina Silva,
  • Luis Suárez-Salas,
  • René Estevan,
  • Jairo Valdivia-Prado,
  • Miguel Saavedra,
  • Lucy Giraldez,
  • Manuel Piñas-Laura,
  • Danny Scipión and
  • Marco Milla
  • + 2 authors

21 March 2021

A set of instruments to measure several physical, microphysical, and radiative properties of the atmosphere and clouds are essential to identify, understand and, subsequently, forecast and prevent the effects of extreme meteorological events, such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,034 Views
13 Pages

20 March 2021

The Heihe River Basin (HRB), located on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, is the second-largest inland river basin in China, with an area of 140,000 km2. The HRB is a coupling area of the westerlies, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau monsoon and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,495 Views
19 Pages

An Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in the Arrivals Hall of Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport: Monitoring of VOCs and NO2

  • Tharwat Mokalled,
  • Jocelyne Adjizian Gérard,
  • Maher Abboud,
  • Céline Liaud,
  • Rouba Nasreddine and
  • Stéphane Le Calvé

20 March 2021

In Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport (RHIA), airport employees stay at least 12 h inside the airport’s buildings and suffer from respiratory symptoms. Additionally, direct openings exist between the apron and the arrivals hall providing a pat...

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