2026 October - 124 articles
Coarse-particle deposition over steep terrain is shaped by the mismatch between rapid flow deflection and slower particle motion. We apply an existing Eulerian–Lagrangian numerical model to simulate the transport of 100 µm spherical alumi...
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) over the Arabian Peninsula is poorly monitored at the surface. This study emulates the relative change in summer (June–August) PM2.5 between 2020 and 2025 in the NASA GEOS-CF composition system with interpretable...
The research consists of the analysis of the detection of overshooting tops (OT) over a period of 10 years using water vapour imagery from a satellite. OT is usually observed in thunderstorms producing severe hail. The results were compared with othe...
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Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are organized convective precipitation regions that produce severe weather hazards, including heavy rainfall, flooding, and strong winds. Objective identification and tracking remain essential for MCS statistical a...
The interaction between the urban heat island (UHI) and urban air pollution (UAP) is widely studied in temperate climates, but it remains underexplored in high latitudes. Using the COSMO-ART atmospheric model with the TERRA_URB urban parameterization...
Meteorological observations are fundamental to environmental modeling, yet data gaps frequently compromise their utility. This study benchmarked five machine-learning algorithms (Random Forest, Extra Trees, Gradient Boosting, Histogram-based Gradient...
Thunderstorms in Mexico have recently attracted increased study. However, researchers have not systematically evaluated the relationship between thunderstorm activity and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) at the national scale. Thi...
Several studies have established a link between outdoor air quality and cardiovascular disease (CVD), with air pollution causing millions of premature deaths annually according to the WHO. However, a similar link has not been clearly established for...
Based on wind profiler radar and ground-based microwave radiometer observations in Qingdao, a rainstorm event that occurred on 15–16 July 2025 is analyzed to extract the different characteristics of dynamic, moisture and thermal conditions betw...
Tibetan Plateau peatlands store substantial organic carbon and are highly vulnerable to climate warming, yet the response of CO2 emissions to whole-soil-profile warming remains unclear. We conducted a two-year whole-soil-profile warming experiment (0...
In the last decade, the radial basis function-generated finite difference (RBF-FD) method has been widely used for numerical solutions of partial differential equations on smooth surfaces. In this paper, we present a comparison between two approaches...
Traffic-based air quality proxy models that perform well in compact urban settings have not been evaluated in megacity environments where complex topography, sea–land breeze circulation, and strong meteorological modulation are expected to domi...
While integrating greenhouse gas and air pollutant (AP) mitigation is essential for urban sustainability and public health, municipal-level prioritisation of co-control targets remains hindered by fragmented microdata and decoupled emission inventori...
The Wind Synthesis System using Doppler Measurements (WISSDOM) retrieves three-dimensional winds by minimizing a variational objective that combines Doppler-radar observations and physical constraints. Using a common Python implementation with PyTorc...
Urban air pollution remains a major challenge in rapidly growing metropolitan regions, but pollutant behavior and meteorological controls differ substantially among cities. This study compares air-quality trends in Shanghai, Delhi, Paris, Los Angeles...
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations based on Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) models are widely used for spacecraft cabin ventilation design; however, they primarily provide mean-flow quantities and often underestimate velocity...
Radon is an established environmental cause of lung cancer, but residential surveillance is limited in Brazil. This study comprised two complementary, analytically independent components: indoor radon monitoring in Caçador, and Hospital Cancer...
Hydrometeor classification from dual-polarization weather radar is important for precipitation monitoring, cloud microphysical analysis, and severe weather warnings. However, operational performance remains limited by non-meteorological echoes, incom...
Air pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHGs) share some anthropogenic emission sources. However, their source-category contributions, city-level emission magnitudes, and spatial patterns are not fully consistent. Therefore, universal co-control effects...
This study compares the environmental conditions and hydrometeor characteristics of successive light hail and moderate rain showers produced by two independent convective cells at Guiyang Airport on 11 April 2025. Automatic weather observations, micr...
This study presents a multi-platform airborne empirical evaluation of an engineered thermodynamic reactive seeding agent, Thai Formula8 (a CaO-based powder), for warm convective cloud modification under the Thai Royal Rainmaking patent framework. Lab...
Urban micro-meteorological models often omit building surfaces’ evening heat release. We derive physics-informed thermal boundary constraints from the Surface Energy Balance equation, supplied to a Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) through...
Forecasting alpine turbulent heat fluxes requires distinguishing predictive skill from assumptions about energy closure. We evaluated hourly sampled sensible and latent heat fluxes at Gyirong, Tibet, using 168 h histories to forecast 1, 6, and 24 h e...
In this study, based on daily soil moisture, air temperature, and radiation data from the ERA5-Land reanalysis dataset spanning 1980–2021, flash-drought events on the Mongolian Plateau were identified. This research reveals the spatiotemporal c...
Airborne tire and road wear particles (TRWP) are gaining regulatory attention, but laboratory methods for their measurement are not yet standardized. This study aimed to quantify how controllable chassis-dynamometer operating parameters affect airbor...
Satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) provides information for surface PM2.5 retrieval, but its relationship with ground-level concentrations depends on meteorological and environmental conditions. This study evaluated a multi-source PM2.5 retrieval...
Heavy rainfall records over the South China Sea accompanies weather systems that can also alter sea-surface temperature (SST), but the magnitude, heterogeneity, and scale dependence of the associated post-event cooling remain unclear. Using 1,192,517...
ERA5 is the fifth-generation atmospheric reanalysis from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. It combines observations with a weather model to reconstruct past atmospheric conditions. We compared its 0.25° and 1° grids to a...
Climate conditions influence ecosystem carbon exchange and, consequently, atmospheric CO2 through variations in temperature, precipitation, and soil moisture. Brazil provides an important case study because of its extensive forest cover, land-use cha...
Short-duration rainfall extremes in Mediterranean regions are frequently produced by convective storms that concentrate most precipitation within narrow temporal windows. Standard Depth–Duration–Frequency (DDF) and Intensity–Duratio...
Combining diffusion forecasts requires decisions about which candidates to retain and how to preserve strong echoes. We propose STCD-VLM, which learns candidate subset quality for adaptive fusion of radar nowcasts. Six observations condition spatiote...
Spatially differentiated snow-load assessment is essential for updating building provisions in Kazakhstan, where climatic contrasts and complex terrain produce substantial regional variations in snow accumulation. This study develops a national-scale...
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Conductor icing threatens overhead transmission lines in mountainous North China, yet the relative contributions of different accretion pathways, including freezing rain, rime, and wet snow, remain poorly quantified. Five conductor icing events occur...
Urban greening programs in Chinese megacities are premised on the assumption that vegetation cools the surface and improves air quality simultaneously, yet greenness is usually quantified in two dimensions and the thermal and air-quality services are...
The toxicity of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) depends not only on its burden in air, but also on its chemical composition, which affects its ability to induce oxidative stress at the cellular level through reactive oxygen species (ROS) formatio...
Despite the significant progress achieved in recent years, there is still room for improving the accuracy of atmospheric transmittance estimation under clear-sky conditions. This study introduces a new parameterization of atmospheric transmittance fo...
Tree–tea agroforestry can reduce radiation and thermal load, but lower irradiance may also constrain instantaneous photosynthesis. We examined whether these responses were accompanied by parallel changes in harvestable shoot fresh weight across...
A lattice Boltzmann model (LBM) was developed for radiation transfer in atmospheric aerosol medium. The basic principle and computation procedure of the LBM for radiation transfer in aerosol medium were described in this article. A new normalization...
Methane is naturally removed from the atmosphere through oxidation by hydroxyl (•OH) and chlorine (•Cl) radicals, which represent respectively about ~90% and 1% of the total natural sink mechanism. Recently, there has been a growing number...
Snowpacks serve as an informative deposition medium for assessing the spatial distribution of atmospheric fallout and technogenic load in areas with persistent snow cover. This study examined the chemical element content in the solid fraction of the...
Anomalous ionogram traces are characteristic ionogram signatures, appearing as split, branching, cusp, U-, sickle-, and crescent-shaped structures in the F-region trace, that are commonly associated with travelling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) and...
The 2021 revision of the Environmental Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan was introduced to align with the World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines and the national carbon neutrality strategy for 2060. The revised Code reflects a transf...
The cloud and precipitation response characteristics following artificial precipitation enhancement serve as an essential basis for evaluating rain enhancement effectiveness. Based on cloud seeding operation records, S-band weather radar products, an...
Regional WRF–Chem dust simulations may require continuous integrations when state continuity is scientifically important, yet extended limited-area runs can depart dynamically from the driving analysis. We use a two-tier controlled design that...
Land surface temperature (LST) is closely linked to land–atmosphere energy exchange, while conventional point forecasting cannot quantify forecast uncertainty or explicitly enforce physical consistency over long horizons. We propose Physics-for...
Because of the increasing negative effects of drought on sectors such as water resources, the economy and agriculture, there is a strong need to study drought and its projections. Given the importance of studying different scenarios regarding drought...
Disease outbreaks impose substantial economic impacts on livestock production systems due to mortality, mandatory depopulation, reduced productivity, and additional costs associated with disease mitigation and biosecurity strategies. The introduction...
Existing global ionospheric models have limited capability in representing the winter anomaly over North America. This study develops a North American Ionospheric TEC Empirical Model (NAI-TECEM) based on multi-source TEC data fusion. GPS-TEC, CODE-GI...
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