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Atmosphere, Volume 7, Issue 2

February 2016 - 17 articles

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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,021 Views
12 Pages

18 February 2016

Coastal tourism is the largest segment of global leisure tourism and it is firmly linked to the destination’s natural resources—with climatic resources chief among them. Through observations and survey responses of beach users, studies have evaluated...

  • Review
  • Open Access
85 Citations
11,289 Views
20 Pages

The Teleconnection of the Tropical Atlantic to Indo-Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures on Inter-Annual to Centennial Time Scales: A Review of Recent Findings

  • Fred Kucharski,
  • Afroja Parvin,
  • Belen Rodriguez-Fonseca,
  • Riccardo Farneti,
  • Marta Martin-Rey,
  • Irene Polo,
  • Elsa Mohino,
  • Teresa Losada and
  • Carlos R. Mechoso

17 February 2016

In this paper, the teleconnections from the tropical Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific region from inter-annual to centennial time scales will be reviewed. Identified teleconnections and hypotheses on mechanisms at work are reviewed and further explored i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
10,752 Views
11 Pages

15 February 2016

Hourly and daily variations of ground-level ozone have been analyzed in relation to meteorological parameters, UVB radiation and radon near the Baltic Sea in Lithuania. An atypical situation with respect to wind domination was observed during the exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,005 Views
20 Pages

15 February 2016

This study investigates the characteristics and prediction of the Maritime Continent (MC) rainfall for the transitional periods between wet and dry seasons. Several observational data sets and the output from the 45-day hindcast by the U.S. National...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,688 Views
16 Pages

6 February 2016

Using CMIP5 model outputs in different El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phases, this work investigates the indicator that could be used as an Index to characterise regional Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) precipitation. Dividing the Indian subcontinen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
15,001 Views
14 Pages

Interactions between Climate, Land Use and Vegetation Fire Occurrences in El Salvador

  • Dolors Armenteras,
  • Cerian Gibbes,
  • Carla A. Vivacqua,
  • Juan Sebastián Espinosa,
  • Wania Duleba,
  • Fabio Goncalves and
  • Christopher Castro

6 February 2016

Vegetation burning is a global environmental threat that results in local ecological, economic and social impacts but also has large-scale implications for global change. The burning is usually a result of interacting factors such as climate, land us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,908 Views
14 Pages

5 February 2016

The energy industry uses weather forecasts for determining future electricity demand variations due to the impact of weather, e.g., temperature and precipitation. However, as a greater component of electricity generation comes from intermittent renew...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,034 Views
18 Pages

Decreasing Aerosol Loading in the North American Monsoon Region

  • Aishwarya Raman,
  • Avelino F. Arellano and
  • Armin Sorooshian

5 February 2016

We examine the spatio-temporal variability of aerosol loading in the recent decade (2005–2014) over the North American Monsoon (NAM) region. Emerging patterns are characterized using aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrievals from the NASA Terra/Moderate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,871 Views
13 Pages

Changing Trends and Abrupt Features of Extreme Temperature in Mainland China from 1960 to 2010

  • Shibo Fang,
  • Yue Qi,
  • Guojun Han,
  • Qingxiang Li and
  • Guangsheng Zhou

2 February 2016

Studies based on the 10th (90th) percentiles as thresholds have been presented to assess moderate extremes in China and globally. However, there has been notably little research on the occurrences of high extremes of warm days and hot days (TX95p and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,263 Views
13 Pages

30 January 2016

Based on the electromagnetic fields generated by a current pulse propagating from one point in space to another, a scenario that is frequently used to simulate return strokes in lightning flashes, it is shown that there is a deep physical connection...

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