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Atmosphere, Volume 8, Issue 2

February 2017 - 20 articles

Cover Story: Classical radar range height indicators (top panels) reveal, in more detail, some of the specific properties of precipitating clouds along with the ray path. Quasi vertical profiles (bottom panels) are a synthesis of radar polar acquisitions and can be used to increase the spatial and temporal representation of radar products as well as to increase quantitative precipitation estimations. By Mario Montopoli. View the paper
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Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,461 Views
21 Pages

8 February 2017

This study describes an analysis of ambient aerosols in a southeastern coastal city of China (Xiamen) in order to assess the temporal variability in the concentrations and sources of organic aerosols (OA). Molecular-level measurements based on a seri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,823 Views
17 Pages

7 February 2017

This article aims to describe the occurrence of heat waves in Western and Southwestern Europe in the period 1976–2015 and determining pressure patterns that cause a persistence of hot days. A hot day was defined as a day on which the daily maximum ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,307 Views
18 Pages

Extreme Sea Ice Loss over the Arctic: An Analysis Based on Anomalous Moisture Transport

  • Marta Vázquez,
  • Raquel Nieto,
  • Anita Drumond and
  • Luis Gimeno

7 February 2017

The Arctic system has experienced in recent times an extreme reduction in the extent of its sea ice. The years 2007 and 2012 in particular showed maxima in the loss of sea ice. It has been suggested that such a rapid decrease has important implicatio...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,013 Views
15 Pages

6 February 2017

While the vertical structure of cold fronts has been studied using various methods, previous research has shown that traditional methods of observing meteorological phenomena (such as pencil-beam radars in PPI/volumetric mode) are not well-suited for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,300 Views
13 Pages

On the Possible Origin of Chaotic Pulse Trains in Lightning Flashes

  • Mohd Muzafar Ismail,
  • Mahbubur Rahman,
  • Vernon Cooray,
  • Mahendra Fernando,
  • Pasan Hettiarachchi and
  • Dalina Johari

5 February 2017

In this study, electromagnetic field radiation bursts known as chaotic pulse trains (CPTs) and regular pulse trains (RPTs) generated by lightning flashes were analyzed. Through a numerical analysis it was found that a typical CPT could be generated b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,143 Views
17 Pages

Windthrow Variability in Central Amazonia

  • Robinson I. Negrón-Juárez,
  • Hillary S. Jenkins,
  • Carlos F. M. Raupp,
  • William J. Riley,
  • Lara M. Kueppers,
  • Daniel Magnabosco Marra,
  • Gabriel H. P. M. Ribeiro,
  • Maria Terezinha F. Monteiro,
  • Luis A. Candido and
  • Jeffrey Q. Chambers
  • + 1 author

4 February 2017

Windthrows are a recurrent disturbance in Amazonia and are an important driver of forest dynamics and carbon storage. In this study, we present for the first time the seasonal and interannual variability of windthrows, focusing on Central Amazonia, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,913 Views
12 Pages

Total Lightning Flash Activity Response to Aerosol over China Area

  • Pengguo Zhao,
  • Yunjun Zhou,
  • Hui Xiao,
  • Jia Liu,
  • Jinhui Gao and
  • Fei Ge

26 January 2017

Twelve years of measurements of aerosol optical depth (AOD), cloud fraction, cloud top height, ice cloud optical thickness and lightning flash density from 2001 to 2012 have been analyzed to investigate the effect of aerosols on electrical activity o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,272 Views
20 Pages

On the Implementation of a Regional X-Band Weather Radar Network

  • Andrea Antonini,
  • Samantha Melani,
  • Manuela Corongiu,
  • Stefano Romanelli,
  • Alessandro Mazza,
  • Alberto Ortolani and
  • Bernardo Gozzini

26 January 2017

In the last few years, the number of worldwide operational X-band weather radars has rapidly been growing, thanks to an established technology that offers reliability, high performance, and reduced efforts and costs for installation and maintenance,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,626 Views
18 Pages

26 January 2017

Tropospheric levels of O3 have historically exceeded the official annual Mexican standards within the Monterrey Metropolitan Area (MMA) in NE Mexico. High-frequency and high-precision measurements of tropospheric O3, NOy, NO2, NO, CO, SO2, PM10 and P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,065 Views
17 Pages

Role of Wind Filtering and Unbalanced Flow Generation in Middle Atmosphere Gravity Wave Activity at Chatanika Alaska

  • Colin C. Triplett,
  • Richard L. Collins,
  • Kim Nielsen,
  • V. Lynn Harvey and
  • Kohei Mizutani

26 January 2017

The meteorological control of gravity wave activity through filtering by winds and generation by spontaneous adjustment of unbalanced flows is investigated. This investigation is based on a new analysis of Rayleigh LiDAR measurements of gravity wave ac...

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Atmosphere - ISSN 2073-4433