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Atmosphere, Volume 17, Issue 6

2026 June - 96 articles

Cover Story: Near-surface air temperature is a key atmospheric forcing of frozen-ground systems in maritime Antarctica. This study analyzes hourly records from eight PERMATHERMAL stations on Livingston and Deception Islands (2000–2022) to show that recent warming is not expressed only as higher mean annual temperature, but also as a reorganization of the annual thermal regime. Cold-dominated days have decreased, thaw-related conditions have become more frequent, annual degree-day balance has shifted toward weaker freezing dominance, and the air frost number has declined at several sites. These changes suggest less favorable atmospheric conditions for permafrost persistence and provide a climatic framework for interpreting active-layer and ground-temperature evolution in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. View this paper
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Articles (96)

  • Article
  • Open Access
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22 June 2026

Reliable carbon emission data are essential for the effective operation of emissions trading systems (ETS), especially as China’s ETS expands to include energy-intensive industries. This study proposes a hybrid, risk-based anomaly detection fra...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Quality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
990 Views
26 Pages

22 June 2026

Climate projections indicate significant changes in temperature patterns and other meteorological parameters under different climate change scenarios, with temperature receiving special attention due to its influence on thermal conditions and human d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Drivers and Impacts of Climate Change Over the Eastern Mediterranean)
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  • Open Access
861 Views
25 Pages

22 June 2026

This study addresses the stratified and turbulent tropospheric delays that impede interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) deformation monitoring in alpine canyon regions. We introduce a tropospheric delay model that incorporates time-varying...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
776 Views
14 Pages

22 June 2026

Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas present in soil, rocks, and water, and is one of the main sources of exposure to natural radiation. It is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. An accurate assessment of indoor radon con...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Pollution Control)
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  • Open Access
689 Views
20 Pages

Forecasting Human Bioclimatic Comfort in a Hot–Dry Climate Using Sarimax Machine Learning: Diyarbakır, Turkey

  • Ahmet Koç,
  • Murat Uçan,
  • Sülem Şenyiğit Doğan,
  • Mehmet Kaya,
  • Gökhan Şahin and
  • Erdal Akin

20 June 2026

Climate, and especially cities with hot climatic conditions, directly impact human life. In this study, hourly datasets from the central meteorological station in Diyarbakır city center for the years 1990–2022 were utilized. These data wer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Air Quality, Green Spaces, and Microclimate Analysis)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
744 Views
21 Pages

Burden of Mortality Attributable to Long-Term Exposure to PM2.5 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Health Impact Assessment Using AirQ+

  • Andualem Ayele Mengistu,
  • Andualem Mekonnen Hiruy,
  • Eyale Bayable Tegegne,
  • Marc N. Fiddler and
  • Solomon Bililign

19 June 2026

Health impact assessments of ambient particulate matter remain far less developed in sub-Saharan African cities, despite fine particulate matter (PM2.5) being a significant contributor to premature mortality globally. This study quantified the public...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Quality and Health)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
448 Views
9 Pages

Trends in the 10-Year Record of Airborne Cryptomeria japonica Pollen Concentrations in Jeju, Korea

  • Young Jong Han,
  • Mae Ja Han,
  • Seungbum Kim,
  • Jae-Won Oh and
  • Kyu Rang Kim

19 June 2026

Cryptomeria japonica (Japanese cedar) is extensively planted as windbreaks in Jeju, Korea, producing highly allergenic pollen that significantly affects local populations. This study analyzed 10-year trends of airborne C. japonica pollen concentratio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pollen Monitoring and Health Risks)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,058 Views
17 Pages

18 June 2026

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global public health challenge. Its development is strongly associated with the inappropriate and excessive use of antimicrobial agents, leading to reduced treatment effectiveness, limited availability of t...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerosols)
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  • Open Access
543 Views
21 Pages

MFD-DF: A PM2.5 Concentration Prediction Method Based on Multimodal Feature Decomposition and Dynamic Fusion

  • Chen Song,
  • Quanbo Long,
  • Zhaobo Su,
  • Yanchao Jiang,
  • Li Wan,
  • Xiankun Zhang,
  • Tiantian Lv,
  • Wenhu Hao and
  • Zuxuan Shi

18 June 2026

Accurate air pollutant concentration prediction is crucial for public health and sustainable urban development. Existing methods predominantly rely on single-modal data, resulting in inadequate representation of pollutant spatiotemporal evolution, po...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Quality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,403 Views
24 Pages

Benchmarking Landsat-8 Collection 2 Level-2 Land Surface Temperature Accuracy Using SURFRAD Stations: Effects of Seasonality and Atmospheric Water Vapor

  • Almustafa AbdElkader Ayek,
  • Mohannad Ali Loho,
  • Nasser Ibrahem,
  • Afnan Abdullah Alturki,
  • Youssef M. Youssef and
  • Mayada Abdelkader Abdelaziz

18 June 2026

Land Surface Temperature (LST) is essential for climate monitoring, drought assessment, and urban heat analysis. Despite its importance, the Landsat-8 Collection 2 Level-2 (C2L2) LST product has not been rigorously validated using ground measurements...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
577 Views
18 Pages

17 June 2026

In recent decades, summer extreme high-temperature (EHT) events in the Sichuan–Chongqing (SC) region of southwestern China have become increasingly frequent under global warming. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is considered a key strategy for ach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change and Extreme Weather Disaster Risks (2nd Edition))
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  • Open Access
520 Views
19 Pages

17 June 2026

The Jinsha River Basin constitutes the largest hydropower base in China. However, its complex terrain results in insufficient accurate data support for numerical forecasts, leading to low accuracy in precipitation predictions. To investigate the spat...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
687 Views
23 Pages

Differences in Dust Release, Near-Surface Transport Structure, and Static Settling Among Farmland Soils Under Wind Erosion

  • Ruochen Jia,
  • Fang Liu,
  • Wennong Kuang,
  • Jinlei Zhu,
  • Yuan Liu,
  • Zhigang Wang,
  • Zhiming Xin,
  • Yuting Liu,
  • Chaoqun Ba and
  • Zhimin Liu

17 June 2026

Farmland wind erosion is usually assessed only by emission intensity, with limited understanding of how soil differences propagate through transport and post-wind settling. Here, seven typical farmland soils from west-central Inner Mongolia, northern...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Characterization and Evolution of Airborne Dust Particles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
900 Views
16 Pages

Effects of Air Pollution Exposure on Hospital Admissions: A Time Series Study in Sivas, Türkiye

  • Hüseyin Özdemir,
  • İbrahim Kaya,
  • Özkan Çapraz,
  • Hakan Çelikten,
  • Ilker Oruc,
  • Hacer Handan Demir and
  • Ali Deniz

16 June 2026

The impact of air pollution on human health has been widely studied in recent decades. Recent findings show that even low levels of air pollution can be harmful to our health, causing disease and early death. However, these studies are very limited i...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Quality and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
893 Views
13 Pages

Spatiotemporal Air Quality Forecasting in South Africa Using the LSTM Model

  • Lerato Shikwambana,
  • Moloko Sebake,
  • Moleboheng Molefe,
  • Henno Havenga and
  • Nkanyiso Mbatha

16 June 2026

This study applies a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model to predict key air pollutants, i.e., sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and particulate matter (PM2.5), as well as the Air Quality Index (AQI) across South Africa using satellite-de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Aerosols and Clouds: Current Status and Emerging Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
654 Views
18 Pages

A Framework for High-Resolution Soil Moisture Mapping Using Sentinel-1/2 Predictors and a Stacking Ensemble

  • Yi Liu,
  • Xiaobo Liu,
  • Siqing Xu,
  • Xiaoang Kong,
  • Binbin Zhao,
  • Xinmin Li and
  • Hui Yuan

16 June 2026

Soil moisture (SM) governs land–atmosphere exchanges and strongly influences agricultural management and hydrological assessment, yet high-resolution mapping remains challenging due to sensor-specific confounding effects and limited field obser...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
365 Views
14 Pages

15 June 2026

Rapid economic development has led to a growing reliance on private car commuting, making the mitigation of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution along road environments critical for the health of nearby residents. Road greening serves as an ecological barr...

(This article belongs to the Section Climatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
833 Views
24 Pages

13 June 2026

This study investigates the forecast bust of Typhoon SHANSHAN (2024) characterized by large track errors using the four major interactive grand global operational ensemble data and the atmospheric reanalysis data. Ensemble space empirical orthogonal...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
549 Views
32 Pages

13 June 2026

Volcanic super-eruptions can perturb atmospheric composition and climate-relevant radiative properties in ways that are not captured by simple scaling from Pinatubo-like events. This study presents a reduced-order regime theory for the coupled evolut...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerosols)
  • Article
  • Open Access
672 Views
16 Pages

12 June 2026

This study examined the chemical composition and quantitative source contributions of coarse (PM10–2.5) and fine (PM2.5) particles in ship-based PM10 and PM2.5 filter samples from 2020 to 2024 across the Yellow Sea. The observations were primar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Atmospheric Aerosol Characterization, Transport and Environmental Effects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
359 Views
21 Pages

12 June 2026

Substantial uncertainties remain in climate model simulations of tropical cyclones (TCs), particularly those associated with internal climate variability. While the influence of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on interannual TC v...

(This article belongs to the Section Climatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
831 Views
30 Pages

Numerical Analysis on Shading-Based Pedestrian Environment Optimization for HOD: A UTCI-Based Comparison at Macau LRT Union Hospital Station

  • Zekai Guo,
  • Qingnian Deng,
  • Jingwei Liang,
  • Lina Yan,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Yufei Zhu,
  • Liang Zheng and
  • Yile Chen

12 June 2026

In the context of subtropical cities, the slow-moving environment of HOD (Hospital-Oriented Development) faces the dual challenges of spatial fragmentation and an extreme hot and humid climate, which also restricts the outdoor space’s thermal e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling of Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
586 Views
23 Pages

11 June 2026

Ground-surface temperature (GST) in maritime Antarctic ice-free areas is influenced by atmospheric forcing, snow cover, surface energy and topography. Previous PERMATHERMAL studies in Livingston and Deception Islands have shown changes in air and gro...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,040 Views
23 Pages

Health Effects of Smoke Exposure in Wildland Firefighters

  • Andrew Foster Armstrong,
  • Iza David Zabaneh,
  • Isabela Agi Maluli,
  • Paige Dafoe,
  • Angel Sheu and
  • Wade Swenson

11 June 2026

Wildland firefighters play a critical role in protecting communities and natural resources, yet comparatively little research has examined the occupational health risks associated with repeated smoke exposure. This narrative review analyzed documente...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Quality and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
626 Views
22 Pages

11 June 2026

Research on the differences and correlations of typhoon precipitation along similar trajectories, as well as their underlying causes, remains insufficient. Therefore, this study selects two typhoons with similar tracks but significantly different pre...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
551 Views
30 Pages

11 June 2026

Quantifying the nonlinear response of crop systems to meteorological driving factors remains a core challenge in agrometeorology. Although Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) offers new approaches, existing SHAP-based threshold identification m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Agrometeorological Techniques and Their Applications)
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  • Open Access
1,150 Views
20 Pages

11 June 2026

Precipitation is among the most uncertain and poorly predicted weather products in earth system science. Local convective precipitation is particularly sensitive to strong land–atmosphere coupling. Two indices derived from atmospheric thermodyn...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
677 Views
25 Pages

11 June 2026

Solar radiation drives virtually every process in Earth’s climate system—from atmospheric circulation and the hydrological cycle to ecosystem carbon uptake and agricultural productivity. How this energy flux is changing under anthropogeni...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solar Radiation and Its Influences on Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,125 Views
26 Pages

Effects of Green Plants on the Indoor Environment: Real-Life Case Studies in Italian Schools and Office Spaces

  • Simone Putzolu,
  • Rita Baraldi,
  • Luisa Neri,
  • Alessandro Zaldei,
  • Carolina Vagnoli,
  • Beniamino Gioli,
  • Adam Nawrocki and
  • Cinzia De Benedictis

10 June 2026

Students and workers spend much of their day in school and office environments, where poor indoor air quality (IAQ) can negatively affect health and comfort. Indoor vegetation is increasingly proposed as a low-cost nature-based solution (NBS) to impr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling of Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort)
  • Article
  • Open Access
396 Views
12 Pages

10 June 2026

This study investigates the frequency of Tibetan Plateau vortices (TPVs) and their statistical relationship with global sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies. The results show that TPV frequency exhibits pronounced seasonal and interannual variabil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simulation, Assessment, and Impacts of Extreme Hydroclimatic Events)
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  • Open Access
555 Views
33 Pages

Mountain ecosystems are sensitive response units and critical ecological barriers to global climate change. Located in the mid-latitude climate transition zone, these ecosystems feature high ecological sensitivity and complex driving mechanisms, crea...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data Analytics for Climate and Human Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems)
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  • Open Access
793 Views
18 Pages

Impacts of Biomass Burning, Urbanization, and Regional Environmental Conditions on Air Quality in Medium-Sized Cities in Brazil

  • Paula Florencio Ramires,
  • Washington Luiz Félix Correia Filho,
  • Rodrigo de Lima Brum and
  • Flavio Manoel Rodrigues da Silva Júnior

Introduction: International studies have demonstrated a positive impact on air quality associated with the presence of green areas in urban conglomerates. However, in Brazil, studies addressing the impacts of urban green areas on air quality are stil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Air Quality and Its Impacts on Public Health)
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  • Open Access
424 Views
15 Pages

Parallel Surface Renewal for Estimating Turbulent Fluxes in Vineyards and Almond Orchards

  • Francesc Castellví,
  • Juan M. Sánchez and
  • Ramón López-Urrea

The La Mancha region (a semi-arid area of southeast Spain) hosts the world’s highest concentration of vineyards and is also one of the regions with the largest areas devoted to almond tree cultivation. Viticulture and nut fruit trees (mainly al...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
906 Views
25 Pages

Urban air pollution results from complex interactions between vehicle emissions, meteorological conditions, and atmospheric chemistry. While machine learning models achieve high accuracy in air quality prediction, their limited transparency hinders p...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Quality)
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  • Open Access
1,082 Views
30 Pages

Urban air quality management has been playing a significant role due to its effects on public health and pollution characteristics of countries with constantly changing policies. Traditional approaches capture how much pollution is present but are un...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Air Pollution Data Analysis: From Classical Geostatistics to Big Data and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
516 Views
21 Pages

Livestock production is a major source of agricultural methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), making the synergistic mitigation of these two gases essential for meeting climate targets. Based on the EDGAR emission database from 2000 to 2024, this stu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solar Radiation, Aerosol, and Multiple Interactions Between Solar Radiation and Atmospheric Substances)
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  • Open Access
490 Views
30 Pages

PM2.5 and near-surface O3 compound pollution is a major challenge for further air quality improvement in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Despite research on the chemical coupling mechanisms and concentration co-variation between PM2.5 and O3, the dire...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coordinated Control of PM2.5 and O3 and Its Impacts in China)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
560 Views
23 Pages

Long-Term Cross-Border PM2.5 Transport Coupling in Southeast Asia, 2003–2024

  • Sornkitja Boonprong,
  • Tunlawit Satapanajaru,
  • Anak Khantachawana,
  • Wangfei Zhang,
  • Pariwate Varnakovida and
  • Orrasa Rattana-amornpirom

Transboundary fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Southeast Asia is commonly assessed using static source–receptor frameworks or descriptive associations that may not resolve how directional dependence changes through time under shifting meteoro...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Quality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
409 Views
21 Pages

This study examines the multi-scale relationships between extreme climate indices and maize yield from a hydrothermal perspective, across both temporal (long-term trends, interannual anomalies, and abrupt changes) and spatial (regional and grid) scal...

(This article belongs to the Section Climatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
399 Views
19 Pages

Accurate prediction of PM2.5 concentration is essential for public health and environmental protection, and specifically crucial for the management of the availability of sufficient health personnel during adverse health episodes. However, its nonlin...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
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  • Open Access
519 Views
21 Pages

Quantifying Meteorological and Emission-Control Contributions to PM2.5 and Ozone Changes During the 2023 G20 Summit in New Delhi

  • Zhiwei Han,
  • Chenliang Tao,
  • Mengyuan Zhang,
  • Shuhuan Wang,
  • Ying Chen and
  • Hongliang Zhang

India faces severe PM2.5–O3 compound pollution, and the 2023 G20 Summit in New Delhi provided a valuable case for examining how short-term emission controls interact with unfavorable late-monsoon meteorology. In this study, the WRF-CMAQ modelin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global and Regional Perspectives on Particulate Matter and Air Quality: Environmental and Health Impacts, Challenges, Policies, and Solutions)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
487 Views
20 Pages

Assessment of Snow Cover Contamination in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, Based on Elemental Analysis and Pollution Indices

  • Zhadyranova Aliya,
  • Baigazinov Zhanat,
  • Aliyev Nursultan,
  • Mukhamediyarov Nurlan,
  • Zhumadilov Kassym,
  • Polivkina Yelena,
  • Salmenbayev Sayan and
  • Aktayev Medet

Seasonal snow cover can serve as an informative single-season indicator of atmospheric deposition in industrial urban areas because it accumulates airborne contaminants during the winter period. A total of 55 snow samples were collected across the ur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Air Quality Monitoring and Source Apportionment)
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  • Open Access
537 Views
15 Pages

China’s pollutant discharge permit system mandates total-quantity emission control for industrial volatile organic compounds (VOCs), yet the actual utilization of permitted capacity remains poorly studied. This study developed an “emissio...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Pollution Control)
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  • Open Access
484 Views
16 Pages

Very low frequency (VLF) radio waves propagating within the Earth–ionosphere waveguide are highly sensitive to changes in lower ionospheric conditions, which are reflected in the amplitude of received transmitter signals. During the solar termi...

(This article belongs to the Section Upper Atmosphere)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
398 Views
22 Pages

The dryline is a sharp boundary between moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and dry air from the desert Southwest. In West Texas, this boundary often surges east during the day and retreats west at night. Understanding exactly why it moves back and for...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
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  • Open Access
1,110 Views
20 Pages

Rainfall Variability in the Brazilian Subtropical Climate Associated with El Niño–Southern Oscillation Diversity

  • Gabriela Goudard,
  • Leila Limberger,
  • Camila Bertoletti Carpenedo and
  • Francisco Mendonça

The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the main driver of interannual climate variability, strongly influencing precipitation, temperature, and extreme events worldwide. In South America, its impacts are well documented. However, stu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on ENSO: Types and Impacts)
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  • Open Access
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18 Pages

Residential solid fuels are widely used for cooking and heating, but the atmospheric evolution of their particulate emissions remains insufficiently characterized. To address this gap, we constructed an integrated quartz-tube furnace–dilution&n...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Pollution Control)
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  • Open Access
587 Views
27 Pages

Future volcanic eruptions are largely omitted from CMIP6 simulations, thereby increasing the uncertainty in 21st-century climate projections. We performed an 80-year (2020–2100) 25-member stochastic ensemble simulation with the climate model SO...

(This article belongs to the Section Climatology)
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  • Open Access
429 Views
13 Pages

This study assesses the effects of upper-level configuration on heavy rain episodes over the Levant. The dynamic upper-level forcings are attributed to ageostrophic effects. One is related to meandering jet ahead of troughs and the second to accelera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Observational and Model-Based Extreme Precipitation Analysis)
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  • Open Access
437 Views
16 Pages

To better understand the characteristics and causes of acid rain pollution in Huangshan City, China, in the context of reduced atmospheric pollutant emissions, this study systematically analyzes precipitation monitoring data from Huangshan City for t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Application of Deep Learning Technology for Spatiotemporal Prediction of Air Pollution from Urban Mobile Sources (2nd Edition))

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