2026 June - 96 articles
This study investigates the ionospheric response in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres over the period from 25 December 2024 to 7 January 2025. A major geomagnetic storm occurred on 1 January 2025, following the consecutive solar wind eruptions on...
Large-scale atmospheric dispersion model for emergency response to nuclear accidents requires high computational efficiency and numerical reliability. A GPU-oriented Lagrangian particle dispersion model was developed within FLEXPART framework to addr...
Nitrogen oxides (NOx), comprising nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), are key precursors of atmospheric nitrate, a major component of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) that critically affects air quality, human health, and ecosystems. Emissio...
Based on sodium lidar observations obtained at the Haikou station (20° N, 110.2° E) of the Chinese Meridian Project during 2012–2024, this study systematically investigates the climatology of sporadic sodium layers (SSLs) at low latitud...
Old residential communities, characterized by dense built environments, high levels of population aging, and insufficient public services, represent critical hotspots of urban heat risk. Taking old residential communities in the central urban area of...
The last atmospheric emission inventory for Cuenca, a city located in the Andean region of southern Ecuador, was developed for the year 2021 (EI 2021) and encompasses both primary pollutants (NOx, CO, VOC, SO2, PM10, and PM2.5) and greenhouse gases (...
This study examines the evolution of thermal discomfort in Athens, Greece, using Thom’s Discomfort Index (TDI). The research commences from a historical reference period (1976–2005) and examines two future periods (2031–2060 and 207...
The Northeast China Cold Vortex (NECV) is a key circulation system affecting weather patterns over North China, frequently triggering thunderstorms, hail, and other severe convective weather. Accurate prediction of NECVs is therefore of great importa...
Heatwave conditions are increasingly being recognized as important drivers of urban air-quality variability in southern European cities, particularly in inland urban environments exposed to persistent summer warming and atmospheric stagnation. This s...
Unsaturated hydrocarbons, including alkenes, alkynes, and aromatic hydrocarbons, are important components of atmospheric volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and serve as key precursors for ozone, a major photochemical pollutant. This study aimed to cha...
Accurate surface downward shortwave radiation (SDSR) is essential for solar resource assessment, photovoltaic applications, and land–atmosphere studies. Although ERA5 is widely used in radiation-related research, its SDSR estimates over China s...
Outdoor open spaces are essential for daily activities in ageing rural environments, yet the thermal effectiveness of vegetation under varying structural configurations remains unclear. Most existing Outdoor Thermal Comfort studies focus on dense urb...
Urban construction activities are recognized as significant contributors to particulate matter (PM) emissions; however, the accurate real-time monitoring of size-resolved PM fractions presents a formidable challenge. Traditional low-cost PM sensors p...
There is a strong global increase in the installation of renewable energy power plants, due to increasing energy demand in the electricity generation sector and fast cost reduction. Recent studies indicate that the installation and operation of photo...
Energy retrofit interventions have become increasingly critical as building sectors worldwide pursue decarbonization targets and improved energy efficiency. However, establishing robust causal inference about retrofit impacts on indoor climate condit...
This study proposes a hybrid forecasting framework that integrates Seasonal-Trend decomposition using LOESS (the following abbreviations are referred to as STL) with two time series models, TimesNet and TimeXer. To capture the complex periodic charac...
This study investigates the mechanical and thermodynamic effects of evaporating ocean spray on the structure and dynamics of a hurricane marine atmospheric boundary layer using Eulerian multifluid and mixture model approaches coupled with the
Nitrous acid (HONO) plays a vital role in atmospheric oxidation capacity (AOC) and ozone (O3) formation. Based on 2017–2021 observations at urban Pudong (PD) and suburban Qingpu (QP) in Shanghai, HONO concentrations ranged from 0.74 ± 0....
Horizontal measurement of global radiation on the rooftop of a weather station is generally hindered by the presence of obstructions surrounding the pyranometer. To investigate the sheltering effect, measured data from two weather stations in Taiwan,...
Near-surface air temperature is the main atmospheric forcing of frozen-ground systems in maritime Antarctica, yet most studies have emphasized mean annual or seasonal trends rather than thermal-regime evolution. This study analyzes hourly air-tempera...
Understanding the mechanisms by which sand and dust particles detach from the land surface has always been one of the most fundamental and critical issues in aeolian physics and dust-storm forecasting. In this study, large-eddy simulation (LES) was e...
Controlled spacecraft reentries from interplanetary trajectories provide rare, well-characterized hypersonic sources for advancing seismoacoustic observation techniques. Here we present seismic observations of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule (SR...
Rapid Arctic warming has significantly altered sea ice–atmosphere boundary layer processes, which low-resolution models struggle to resolve accurately. This study evaluates the historical performance (1958–2014) of four high-resolution mo...
With the rapid growth of tourism in Dayi County over the past decade, this study develops a meteorological disaster risk assessment framework for major tourist attractions in this region. Drawing upon daily precipitation and temperature records from...
Vento Norte (VNOR; Portuguese for North Wind) is a downslope windstorm that develops over modest terrain in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), southern Brazil. The regional topography is characterized by an abrupt terrain transition with e...
Accurate sea surface wind forecasts are essential for marine disaster prevention, maritime economic activities, and renewable energy development. However, traditional numerical weather prediction (NWP) models often encounter limitations such as nonli...
A microscale vortex embedded in a cold front over the Pearl River Estuary was observed by weather radars in Hong Kong on the evening of 2 March 2026. This paper presents an observational and simulation study of this vortex. In addition to the reflect...
Marathon heat stress is an increasing public health concern under climate change, particularly for mass participation endurance events. Using 967,878 runners from 18 U.S. marathon events between 2011 and 2019, this study examined the nonlinear associ...
An in-depth analysis of the drivers of agricultural emissions at the farm-gate level is crucial for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. This study examines the short- and long-run effects of crop production on farm-gate emissions in the regional tr...
Air and water pollution pose critical threats to public health and environmental stability, particularly in rapidly urbanizing developing nations. This study investigates synergistic interactions between air and water pollutants across 14 cities in H...
A study of agricultural yield sensitivity in Peru to climate variations is conducted from 1961 to 2024 to identify climate drivers and statistical tools for early warning and risk management. The statistical basis is year-on-year change in standardiz...
Environmental changes driven by land use and climate variability profoundly affect basin water balance, yet their separate and combined effects remain poorly understood in data-scarce regions. This study investigates the individual and combined impac...
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is widely recognized as a critical pathway for aviation decarbonization; however, its life-cycle carbon performance is highly sensitive to supply chain configurations. This study proposes a data-driven framework integr...
Precipitation variability in the VMD is a critical determinant of agricultural productivity, freshwater availability, and flood and drought dynamics in one of Southeast Asia’s most climate-vulnerable regions. Teleconnections between PPTA and th...
Actual evapotranspiration is a primary pathway for crop water consumption in irrigation districts, including the Shijin irrigation district, where understanding the impacts of irrigation is crucial for managing water resources in this large-scale, wa...
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure in public transport microenvironments has important implications for commuter health, yet concentration-based assessments may not adequately reflect the dose actually inhaled by passengers. This study quantifi...
A time-dependent nonlinear model is presented to describe internal gravity waves propagating upwards in the F-region of the Earth’s ionosphere. The model is based on a configuration where the background neutral velocity is constant, the geomagn...
In the context of increasing climate variability and carbon neutrality targets, understanding the relative roles of climate and human activities is essential for accurately assessing vegetation carbon sink dynamics. This study develops a climate-cont...
Accurate forecasting of typhoon evolution from satellite cloud imagery is critical for disaster preparedness and mitigation, yet remains challenging due to the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of typhoon systems. While deep learning models have shown...
A significant fraction of the HF waves is absorbed by the lowest ionospheric layer, the D-region. This region is perturbed by solar flares, which notably cause fast increases in the Sun’s X-ray flux. We present here a new chemistry model, the &...
Air quality in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) ranks among the worst in the US. Exposures to traffic-related air pollutants have been associated with pediatric health complications, and few studies have investigated respiratory complications in relation...
The relevance of this study is determined by the need for a scientifically grounded assessment of environmental risks associated with rocket launches and by the necessity of ensuring environmental safety in areas potentially affected by space activit...
Remote alpine lakes on the Xizang Plateau are important archives for tracing the long-range atmospheric transport (LRAT) of persistent organic pollutants, yet historical records of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) from this region remain scarce...
Using surface observations, ADTD lightning data, and radar reflectivity from April-September 2022–2024 in the Xi’an terminal area, this study classified severe convective events into four categories: ordinary thunderstorms, short-duration...
The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) has strong diurnal variability, but routine radiosonde launches at 00:00 and 12:00 UTC cannot fully resolve its daily evolution. This study develops and evaluates a 13-year (2007–2019) hourly ABL profile dat...
Vehicle emission inventories are highly sensitive to vehicle activity data, yet annual vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) is still commonly represented using generalized default values whose representativeness at the city scale remains uncertain. In t...
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