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Atmosphere, Volume 14, Issue 6

June 2023 - 148 articles

Cover Story: In the climate change context, lightning-ignited wildfires are an increasing hazard in the Mediterranean Basin. Although lightning activity can be predicted, the challenge remains in forecasting the thunderstorm’s probability of ignition. The ERA5 reanalysis was used to select the best predictors to forecast lightning-ignited wildfires. The results show that they tend to be associated with dry thunderstorms, characterised by weak updrafts, high-based clouds, and relatively dry air at lower levels, favouring the occurrence of “dry lightning”, which is associated with less than 2.5 mm of rainfall. Comparison with similar studies indicates a considerable degree of universality, suggesting the potential of these thermodynamic and kinematic parameters to be applied more widely. View this paper
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Articles (148)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,738 Views
11 Pages

20 June 2023

Statistics in the inertial energy transfer range (IETR) of d-dimensional turbulence ( 2≤d≤3) are studied using a Lagrangian renormalized approximation (LRA). The LRA suggests that the energy spectrum in the IETR is given by Kd|ε¯|2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,441 Views
25 Pages

Meteorological Drought Variability over Africa from Multisource Datasets

  • Kenny T. C. Lim Kam Sian,
  • Xiefei Zhi,
  • Brian O. Ayugi,
  • Charles Onyutha,
  • Zablon W. Shilenje and
  • Victor Ongoma

19 June 2023

This study analyses the spatiotemporal variability of meteorological drought over Africa and its nine climate subregions from an ensemble of 19 multisource datasets (gauge-based, satellite-based and reanalysis) over the period 1983–2014. The st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,693 Views
18 Pages

19 June 2023

In the present work, we investigate the possibility that long-range airborne transport of infectious aerosols could initiate an epidemic outbreak at distances downwind beyond one hundred kilometers. For this, we have developed a simple atmospheric tr...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,867 Views
11 Pages

19 June 2023

The Turpan Basin is one of the hottest regions in China, with high fire potential. The occurrence of gales could roll over trains as well as spread and expand the fire rapidly, posing adverse effects on traffic and fire protection. Therefore, it is i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,022 Views
11 Pages

Risk Assessment of the Impact of Heavy Metals in Urban Traffic Dust on Human Health

  • Nima Mahmoud,
  • Dana Al-Shahwani,
  • Hanadi Al-Thani and
  • Rima J. Isaifan

19 June 2023

Excessive exposure to heavy metals induces potential adverse health impacts in humans. More specifically, heavy metals in particulate matter (PM) have a significant impact since PM can penetrate human organs and systems, causing several morbidities....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,085 Views
19 Pages

19 June 2023

The high wind pressure and velocity of the outdoor environment make super-high-rise tower crown space distinct from general tall through space. This segregation causes the crown space to be particularly prone to smoke short-circuiting influenced by t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,692 Views
19 Pages

18 June 2023

Due to the enhancement by its steep mesoscale topography, the overall rainfall amount and distribution in Taiwan from typhoons, to a first degree, are determined by the storm track relative to the island. Therefore, the quality of typhoon quantitativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,086 Views
19 Pages

17 June 2023

Our previous study revealed the link between Barents–Kara sea ice and rainfall in eastern China. This study continues evaluating the performance of multiple models from phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) in simulating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,412 Views
24 Pages

17 June 2023

Measurements of net ecosystem exchange (NEE), solar global radiation, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and meteorological parameters were carried out on a subtropical conifer plantation in China from 2013 to 2016. These observations were use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,774 Views
12 Pages

Short-Period Variation of the Activity of Atmospheric Turbulence in the MLT Region over Langfang

  • Zewei Wang,
  • Cunying Xiao,
  • Xiong Hu,
  • Junfeng Yang,
  • Xuan Cheng,
  • Qingchen Xu,
  • Luo Xiao and
  • Xiaoqi Wu

17 June 2023

In this paper, we investigate the activity of atmospheric turbulence in the MLT region and the relationship between the activity of atmospheric turbulence and atmospheric wave activity. We use data from the Langfang MF radar (39.4∘N, 116.7ͨ...

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