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Atmosphere, Volume 14, Issue 4

April 2023 - 153 articles

Cover Story: Urban heat islands (UHI) and climate change are exacerbating livability in metropolitan areas, especially during heatwaves. The study proposes a methodology to map diurnal outdoor thermal comfort during a heatwave at city level using a combination of satellite products, in situ measurements and Envi-met model runs upscaled from specific test areas to the broader city. The method exploits the ECOSTRESS sensor to detect surface thermal patterns at different diurnal times by developing an hourly based index (hUHTI, hourly urban heatwave thermal index) that serves as a proxy. A case study on Prato (Italy) municipality during the 2021 summer heatwave events is presented. The method provides a tool for public administrations to intervene with urban regeneration plans in the most vulnerable areas. View this paper
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Articles (153)

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,204 Views
25 Pages

Big-Data-Driven Machine Learning for Enhancing Spatiotemporal Air Pollution Pattern Analysis

  • Mateusz Zareba,
  • Hubert Dlugosz,
  • Tomasz Danek and
  • Elzbieta Weglinska

21 April 2023

Air pollution is an important problem for public health. The spatiotemporal analysis is a crucial step for understanding the complex characteristics of air pollution. Using many sensors and high-resolution time-step observations makes this task a big...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,677 Views
14 Pages

21 April 2023

Wind loads can endanger the safety and stability of bridges, especially long-span cable-supported bridges. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the potential wind loads during the bridge design stage. Traditionally, wind load evaluation is performe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,852 Views
20 Pages

21 April 2023

PM2.5-bound trace elements were chosen for health risk assessment because they have been linked to an increased risk of respiratory and cardiovascular illness. Since the Korean national air quality standard for ambient particulate matter is based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,138 Views
35 Pages

21 April 2023

We previously introduced the parametric variance Kalman filter (PvKF) assimilation as a cost-efficient system to estimate the dynamics of methane analysis concentrations. As an extension of our development, this study demonstrates the linking of PvKF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,464 Views
24 Pages

21 April 2023

European ports are struggling to install enough shore power connections to follow the European Commission initiative, which insists ships that lie alongside to be plugged in and have their auxiliary engines off in EU ports by 2030. The port of Helsin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,123 Views
19 Pages

21 April 2023

In this study, the spatiotemporal distributions of highway blockage and the low-visibility weather events in eastern China are studied by taking Jiangsu Province as an example. Based on the record table data of highway-blocking events, a vulnerabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,893 Views
27 Pages

Past and Future Responses of Soil Water to Climate Change in Tropical and Subtropical Rainforest Systems in South America

  • Santiago M. Márquez Arévalo,
  • Rafael Coll Delgado,
  • Douglas da Silva Lindemann,
  • Yuri A. Gelsleichter,
  • Marcos Gervasio Pereira,
  • Rafael de Ávila Rodrigues,
  • Flávio Barbosa Justino,
  • Henderson Silva Wanderley,
  • Everaldo Zonta and
  • Romário Oliveira de Santana
  • + 1 author

21 April 2023

The present study aimed to contribute to the diagnosis and advance the knowledge of the impacts of land use change and climate change on the tropical longleaf forest biome at the continental scale in South America (Biome 1 according to the WWF classi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,563 Views
18 Pages

Assessment of Mechanical Draft Cooling Tower Thermal Emissions from Visual Images of Plumes

  • Christopher Sobecki,
  • Alfred Garrett,
  • Brian d’Entremont,
  • Ryan Connal and
  • Sebastian Aleman

21 April 2023

Using a one-dimensional code, we computed the power (enthalpy discharge rate) of a twelve-cell mechanical draft cooling tower (MDCT) using over two hundred visible condensed water vapor plume volume measurements derived from images, weather data, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,525 Views
12 Pages

21 April 2023

This study analyzes wind structures up to 509 m in the atmospheric boundary layer in the coastal area of Hainan Island, using a dataset obtained from ultrasonic anemometers housed in three towers. The wind profile, consisting of the measurements from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,487 Views
11 Pages

21 April 2023

In previous studies, the concept of degree days has been widely used to indicate heating or cooling energy requirements, but it does not consider the dehumidification effect. In the present study, the concept of dehumidification degree days based on...

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