2025 August - 102 articles
Emissions from civil aviation not only degrade the environmental quality around airports but also have the significant effects on climate change. According to the flight schedules, aircraft/engine combination information and revised emission factors...
Understanding Holocene high sea levels in the South China Sea (SCS) is critical for understanding climate change and assessing future sea-level rise risks. We provide a comprehensive review of the Holocene highstand in the SCS, focusing on its age, h...
The iron and steel industry is one of the main industrial contributors to air pollution. The aim of our study is to analyze modern studies on air pollution by the iron and steel industry, as a result of which the geography and research directions and...
In this study, two air pollution abatement strategies are examined, focusing on sources and sinks. These include the reduction in ozone precursors (source) and impact of nature-based solutions (sink). For the first abatement strategy (source), two wa...
Air pollution is causing a global health, climate, and environmental crisis. Air quality (AQ) in hyper-arid regions, such as the Arabian Peninsula, remains under-explored, posing significant concerns for public health and the scientific community. Bo...
Intense thunderstorms known as Nor’westers develop in the Eastern and North Eastern parts of India and Bangladesh before the monsoon season (March to May). The associated severe weather can cause extensive damage to property and livestock. This...
Accurate estimation of the regional ionospheric model (RIM) is essential for Total electron content and high-precision applications of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Utilizing dual-frequency observations from over 250 Crustal Movement...
In the context of growing climate change and more frequent heat extremes, tourism in Mediterranean cities like Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is becoming increasingly vulnerable. This study aimed to provide a detailed analysis of the human bioclimat...
In the context of global warming and China’s “dual carbon” goals, Shanxi, as China’s main coal-producing region (accounting for 28.4% of the country’s coal production), is facing the dual challenges of carbon emission re...
The airborne 2D-S optical array probe has worked for more than ten years and has collected a large number of cloud particle images. However, existing detection methods cannot detect cloud particles with high precision due to the size differences of c...
The vulnerability of regional agricultural systems continues to intensify under the influence of global climate change. Understanding the spatiotemporal variation in meteorological elements and their agricultural response mechanisms has become a crit...
Air pollution poses a significant threat to public health, particularly in urban and industrialized regions. This study investigates the relationship between air quality and the frequency of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) calls in the Małopolsk...
Atmospheric aerosols are recognized as a major air pollutant with significant impacts on human health, air quality, and climate. Yet, the chemical composition and seasonal variability of aerosols remain underexplored in several Western Mediterranean...
The incidence of allergic diseases has increased notably in recent years. The reasons for this increase include air pollution, diet, and infectious factors. This study aims to analyze the interactions between aeroallergens, environmental pollutants,...
To address the research gap on water-soluble heavy metals (WSHMs) in Taiyuan, China, we conducted a winter campaign (18–29 January 2019) at an urban site to measure fifteen WSHMs (Zn, Fe, Mn, Ba, Cu, Se, As, Sb, Sn, Pb, Ni, V, Ti, Cd, and Co)....
In this study, we describe the derivation and evaluation of Top of the Atmosphere (TOA) Shortwave Radiative (SWR) Fluxes from the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) sensor on the GOES-18 satellite. The TOA estimates use narrowband observations from ABI t...
Anchored in the four-factor theory of natural hazard risk, this study presents a dynamic risk assessment of collapse geological hazards (CGHs) using the S3K highway slope in Changbai Korean Autonomous County, China, as a case study. Building on previ...
Conventional radiative transfer (RT) models often adopt the plane-parallel (PP) approximation, which neglects Earth’s curvature and leads to significant optical path errors under large solar or sensor zenith angles, particularly for high-latitu...
Global warming, anthropogenic pressure, and urban expansion at the expense of green spaces are leading to an increase in the incidence of urban heat islands, creating discomfort and health issue for citizens. This present research aimed at quantifyin...
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the “third pole” of the Earth with an average elevation of approximately 4500 m, offers a unique natural laboratory for probing the dynamic behavior of the global electric circuit. In this study, we con...
Regional extreme climate change remains a major environmental issue of global concern. However, in the context of the joint effects of urban expansion and the urban ecological environment, the responses of the normalized difference vegetation index (...
This study presents real-time measurements of particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5, PM10) and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations across five university indoor environments with varying occupancy levels and natural ventilation conditions. CO2 concentration...
It has always been a research topic for some meteorologists to design a new and reasonable calculation scheme of the intensity of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) summer monsoon (TPSM). Existing indices are defined based on dynamic factors. However, the inte...
Climate change and air pollution are associated with a range of health outcomes, including cardiovascular and respiratory disease. Evaluation of the synergic effects of air pollution and increasing natural temperature on mortality is important for un...
The Fenwei Plain (FWP), one of China’s most polluted regions, has experienced severe ozone (O3) pollution in recent years. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), key O3 precursors, undergo significant photochemical degradation, yet their loss and t...
An objective classification scheme by Jenkinson and Collison is applied to the period 1961–2010 to statistically model the temperatures over Serbia. The originally identified 26 weather types (WTs) are reorganised into 10 basic types. This disc...
Urban particulate matter (PM) pollution critically impacts public health and climate. However, traditional ground-based monitoring fails to resolve vertical PM distribution, limiting understanding of transport and stratification-coupled mechanisms. V...
Hurricanes cause significant destruction, disrupting transportation, and resulting in loss of life and property. High-precision marine meteorological data are essential for understanding hurricanes. ERA5 provides high temporal resolution and global c...
In this study, the objective is to assess the impacts of NH3 emissions from mink farming on human health and nature, which are sensitive to atmospheric nitrogen deposition. The impact-pathway approach is applied to follow the emissions from source to...
Accurate prediction of the Air Quality Index (AQI) is crucial for protecting public health; however, the inherent instability and high volatility of AQI present significant challenges. To address this, the present study introduces a novel hybrid deep...
Gross primary productivity (GPP) is a key carbon flux in the global carbon cycle, and understanding the inhibitory effects of drought on GPP and its underlying mechanisms is crucial for understanding carbon–climate feedback. However, current re...
Understanding precipitation variability is essential for assessing climate dynamics and their impacts on agriculture, water resources, and infrastructure. This study analyzes subseasonal precipitation patterns in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, using 45-d...
This study evaluates three wind data sources in East Iceland’s coastal environment: the high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-based Sentinel-1, the regional reanalysis Copernicus Arctic Regional Reanalysis (CARRA), and the global reana...
This article utilized hourly temperature, humidity, pressure and wind speed data from passion fruit meteorological observation stations in three southwestern cities of Fujian Province (Longyan, Sanming, Zhangzhou) from 2020 to 2022, as well as nation...
Carbonaceous aerosols exert significant impacts on human health and climate systems. This study investigates the seasonal variations of carbonaceous components in fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Qinhuangdao, a coastal city in northern China, throu...
Precipitation pH at a Russin EANET site, Irkutsk, was discussed and explained from the viewpoint of acid–base chemical equilibrium theory. The datasets employed were the wet-only daily basis observations at a subarctic climate urban site from 1...
In regions characterized by complex terrain and diverse pollution sources, high-precision air pollution prediction remains challenging due to nonlinear spatiotemporal coupling and the difficulty of modeling local pollutant agglomeration. To address t...
Surface solar radiation (SSR) is a critical component of the Earth’s energy balance and plays a pivotal role in climate modelling, hydrological processes, and solar energy planning. In data-scarce regions like India, where dense ground-based ra...
Accurate surface wind speed data are vital for atmospheric science, climatology, and energy applications. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis v.5 (ERA5), as one of the most widely used global reanalysis datasets, has insuffi...
Accurate assessment of terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage is essential for understanding the global carbon cycle and informing climate change mitigation strategies. However, traditional estimation models face significant challenges in complex mount...
The vertical distribution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) within the planetary boundary layer (PBL) is critical for understanding ozone (O3) formation, yet knowledge remains limited in complex urban environments. In this study, vertical measurem...
Asphalt pavements are highly sensitive to climatic conditions, and their performance and longevity are significantly affected by temperature fluctuations, precipitation, and extreme weather events. With increasing climate variability, the development...
The spatial extent of the global land monsoon (GLM), known as the global land monsoon area, is a fundamental climate characteristic with significant socio-ecological implications. While the influence of natural external forcing on GLM intensity durin...
Carbon isotope fractionation is an efficient tool used for the discrimination and differentiation of sinks and emission sources. Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are among the key drivers of climate change, and a detailed evaluation of variatio...
SA-ConvLSTM is a recently proposed spatiotemporal model for total electron content (TEC) prediction, which effectively catches long-term temporal evolution and global-scale spatial correlations in TEC. However, its reliance on standard convolution li...
Meteorological reanalyses are one of the means to assess the solar irradiance reaching the ground. This paper deals with estimates of the hourly means of irradiance in clear-sky conditions provided by the ERA5, JRA-3Q, and MERRA-2 reanalyses. They ar...
Longnan is the largest olive cultivation area in China. The unique microclimates in Longnan make it an ideal testing ground for climate-resilient cultivation strategies with broader applications across similar regions, yet predictive models linking w...
With the significant growth in the number of PHEVs, conducting in-depth research on their CO2 emission characteristics is essential. This study used the Horiba OBS-ONE Portable Emission Measurement System (PEMS) to measure the CO2 emissions of three...
Urban street canyons in high-density areas exacerbate PM2.5 accumulation, posing significant public health risks. Through integrated empirical and computational methods—including empirical PM2.5 and microclimate measurements, multivariate regre...
Flash floods, exacerbated by climate change and land use alterations, are among the most destructive natural hazards globally, leading to significant damage and loss of life. In this context, the Flash Flood Potential Index (FFPI), which is a terrain...
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