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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
6 Citations
3,783 Views
14 Pages

20 March 2021

City centers have to cope with an increasing amount of air pollution. The supply of fresh air is crucial yet difficult to ensure, especially under stable conditions of the atmospheric boundary layer. This case study used the PArallelized Large eddy s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,764 Views
18 Pages

20 March 2021

This study proposed an aerosol characterization process using satellites for severe biomass burning events. In general, these severely hazy cases are labeled as “undecided” or “hazy.” Because atmospheric aerosols are significantly affected by factors...

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

Species of Fungi and Pollen in the PM1 and the Inhalable Fraction of Indoor Air in Homes

  • Rui Lu,
  • Ann Dorte Pørneki,
  • Jonas N. Lindgreen,
  • Yanpeng Li and
  • Anne Mette Madsen

20 March 2021

Airborne microbial fragments in the PM1 fraction (particles with aerodynamic diameters less than 1 µm) are a cause for concern as they may potentially deposit in the alveoli of the human airways. This study aimed to use qPCR to identify and quantify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,858 Views
26 Pages

High Energy Parametric Laser Source and Frequency-Comb-Based Wavelength Reference for CO2 and Water Vapor DIAL in the 2 µm Region: Design and Pre-Development Experimentations

  • Jonas Hamperl,
  • Jan Fabian Geus,
  • Kjell M. Mølster,
  • Andrius Zukauskas,
  • Jean-Baptiste Dherbecourt,
  • Valdas Pasiskevicius,
  • Lukas Nagy,
  • Oliver Pitz,
  • David Fehrenbacher and
  • Hanjo Schaefer
  • + 12 authors

20 March 2021

We present a differential absorption lidar (DIAL) laser transmitter concept designed around a Nested Cavity Optical Parametric Oscillator (NesCOPO) based Master Oscillator Power Amplifier (MOPA). The spectral bands are located around 2051 nm for CO2...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,608 Views
20 Pages

Energy-Efficiency Requirements for Residential Building Envelopes in Cold-Climate Regions

  • Amy Huynh,
  • Regina Dias Barkokebas,
  • Mohamed Al-Hussein,
  • Carlos Cruz-Noguez and
  • Yuxiang Chen

20 March 2021

Due to the energy and environmental impacts attributed to the operational phase of the building sector, efforts have been made to improve building energy performance through the implementation of restrictive energy requirements by regulatory bodies....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,468 Views
18 Pages

Measured Solid State and Sub-Cooled Liquid Vapour Pressures of Benzaldehydes Using Knudsen Effusion Mass Spectrometry

  • Petroc Shelley,
  • Thomas J. Bannan,
  • Stephen D. Worrall,
  • M. Rami Alfarra,
  • Carl J. Percival,
  • Arthur Garforth and
  • David Topping

19 March 2021

Benzaldehydes are components of atmospheric aerosol that are poorly represented in current vapour pressure predictive techniques. In this study the solid state (PSsat) and sub-cooled liquid saturation vapour pressures (PLsat) were measured over a ran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,199 Views
15 Pages

19 March 2021

There has been an increase in the network of mass rapid transit (MRT) and the number of automobiles over the past decades in the Taipei metropolitan area, Taiwan. The effects of these changes on PM2.5 exposure for the residents using different modes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,265 Views
17 Pages

19 March 2021

The Environmental Trace Gases Monitoring Instrument (EMI) is a high-spectral-resolution payload onboard the latest pathfinder mission GaoFen-5, designed specifically for the monitoring of global atmospheric trace gas compositions and trends. This stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,258 Views
19 Pages

18 March 2021

In this paper, we report the results obtained from one year of real-time measurement (i.e., from December 2019 to November 2020) of atmospheric black carbon (BC) under a rural environment in Qingdao of Northeastern China. The annual average concentra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
11,445 Views
28 Pages

Prediction of Solar Irradiance and Photovoltaic Solar Energy Product Based on Cloud Coverage Estimation Using Machine Learning Methods

  • Seongha Park,
  • Yongho Kim,
  • Nicola J. Ferrier,
  • Scott M. Collis,
  • Rajesh Sankaran and
  • Pete H. Beckman

18 March 2021

Cloud cover estimation from images taken by sky-facing cameras can be an important input for analyzing current weather conditions and estimating photovoltaic power generation. The constant change in position, shape, and density of clouds, however, ma...

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