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Atmosphere, Volume 6, Issue 9

September 2015 - 9 articles

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Articles (9)

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,248 Views
15 Pages

An Observational Study of Entrainment Rate in Deep Convection

  • Xiaohao Guo,
  • Chunsong Lu,
  • Tianliang Zhao,
  • Guang J. Zhang and
  • Yangang Liu

22 September 2015

This study estimates entrainment rate and investigates its relationships with cloud properties in 156 deep convective clouds based on in-situ aircraft observations during the TOGA-COARE (Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Respo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
9,743 Views
11 Pages

Characteristics of PM1.0, PM2.5, and PM10, and Their Relation to Black Carbon in Wuhan, Central China

  • Wei Gong,
  • Tianhao Zhang,
  • Zhongmin Zhu,
  • Yingying Ma,
  • Xin Ma and
  • Wei Wang

22 September 2015

Hourly average monitoring data for mass concentrations of PM1, PM2.5, PM10, and black carbon (BC) were measured in Wuhan from December 2013 to December 2014, which has a flourishing steel industry, to analyze the characteristics of PM and their relat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,224 Views
11 Pages

22 September 2015

Owing to the absorbing, refracting and scattering effects of the propagation medium, electromagnetic (EM) energy will degrade with the increment of propagation range, and the maximum value exists at the point of the radiating source. Employing this p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,413 Views
16 Pages

15 September 2015

The planetary boundary layer is the medium of energy, moisture, momentum and pollutant exchange between the surface and the atmosphere. In this paper, a method to derive the boundary layer mixing height (MH) was introduced and applied over the Heihe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
168 Citations
33,720 Views
19 Pages

An Overview of Particulate Matter Measurement Instruments

  • Simone Simões Amaral,
  • João Andrade De Carvalho,
  • Maria Angélica Martins Costa and
  • Cleverson Pinheiro

9 September 2015

This review article presents an overview of instruments available on the market for measurement of particulate matter. The main instruments and methods of measuring concentration (gravimetric, optical, and microbalance) and size distribution Scanning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,258 Views
20 Pages

Spatiotemporal Interpolation of Rainfall by Combining BME Theory and Satellite Rainfall Estimates

  • Tingting Shi,
  • Xiaomei Yang,
  • George Christakos,
  • Jinfeng Wang and
  • Li Liu

7 September 2015

The accurate assessment of spatiotemporal rainfall variability is a crucial and challenging task in many hydrological applications, mainly due to the lack of a sufficient number of rain gauges. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,489 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Stratospheric Conditions on the Viability, Metabolism and Proteome of Prokaryotic Cells

  • Dagmar Chudobova,
  • Kristyna Cihalova,
  • Pavlina Jelinkova,
  • Jan Zitka,
  • Lukas Nejdl,
  • Roman Guran,
  • Martin Klimanek,
  • Vojtech Adam and
  • Rene Kizek

28 August 2015

The application of ultraviolet (UV) radiation to inhibit bacterial growth is based on the principle that the exposure of DNA to UV radiation results in the formation of cytotoxic lesions, leading to inactivation of microorganisms. Herein, we present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,755 Views
12 Pages

Analysis of PAHs Associated with Particulate Matter PM2.5 in Two Places at the City of Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

  • Hugo Saldarriaga-Noreña,
  • Rebecca López-Márquez,
  • Mario Murillo-Tovar,
  • Leonel Hernández-Mena,
  • Efrén Ospina-Noreña,
  • Enrique Sánchez-Salinas,
  • Stefan Waliszewski and
  • Silvia Montiel-Palma

25 August 2015

This study was carried out between January and February 2013, at two sites in the city of Cuernavaca, México, using low-volume equipment. Fifteen Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), were identified by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,871 Views
19 Pages

25 August 2015

While occurrences of wavelike motion in the stable boundary layer due to the presence of a significant restoring buoyancy force are rarely disputed, their modalities and interaction with turbulence remain a subject of active research. In this work, t...

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