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Atmosphere, Volume 8, Issue 3

March 2017 - 20 articles

Cover Story: Heatwaves with synoptic background presenting a cyclonic curvature has become more common over the last two decades in Romania, especially during the warm season. They are related mainly to radiative conditions enhanced by warm ridges in the middle troposphere, while in the lower troposphere a low advection intensity from Southwestern Europe and important positive temperature anomalies prevail. By Lucian Sfîca and Adina-Eliza Croitoru. View this paper
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Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
9,439 Views
12 Pages

Characteristics and Formation Mechanisms of Fine Particulate Nitrate in Typical Urban Areas in China

  • Xinlei Ge,
  • Yanan He,
  • Yele Sun,
  • Jianzhong Xu,
  • Junfeng Wang,
  • Yafei Shen and
  • Mindong Chen

22 March 2017

Nitrate is a very important aerosol component, thus elucidation of its characteristics and formation mechanisms is essential and important for effective reduction of aerosol pollution. In this work, highly time-resolved submicron aerosol (PM1) data m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
110 Citations
10,785 Views
29 Pages

Atmospheric Volatile Organic Compounds in a Typical Urban Area of Beijing: Pollution Characterization, Health Risk Assessment and Source Apportionment

  • Hao Zhang,
  • Hong Li,
  • Qingzhu Zhang,
  • Yujie Zhang,
  • Weiqi Zhang,
  • Xuezhong Wang,
  • Fang Bi,
  • Fahe Chai,
  • Jian Gao and
  • Lingshuo Meng
  • + 4 authors

21 March 2017

Atmospheric volatile organic compounds (VOCs) measurement was carried out using gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID) technique (Airmo VOCs online analyzer) in a typical urban area in Beijing from April 2014 to January 2015. Ambient l...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,739 Views
24 Pages

21 March 2017

Observations from the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean have shown that volcanic eruptions (particularly explosive ones) can generate internal waves in the atmosphere that can be observed by microbarographs at ground level. It is possible that ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
162 Citations
11,043 Views
12 Pages

Inverse Relations of PM2.5 and O3 in Air Compound Pollution between Cold and Hot Seasons over an Urban Area of East China

  • Mengwei Jia,
  • Tianliang Zhao,
  • Xinghong Cheng,
  • Sunling Gong,
  • Xiangzhi Zhang,
  • Lili Tang,
  • Duanyang Liu,
  • Xianghua Wu,
  • Liming Wang and
  • Yusheng Chen

20 March 2017

Abstract: By analyzing the data of urban air pollutant measurements from 2013 to 2015 in Nanjing, East China, we found that the correlation coefficients between major atmospheric compound pollutants PM2.5 and O3 were respectively 0.40 in hot season (...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,967 Views
15 Pages

18 March 2017

Using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) – Advanced Research WRF (ARW) mesoscale model (WRF–ARW), we investigate how two nocturnal offshore rainbands occurring in the Mediterranean basin are modified in a warmer sea surface temperature (SST)....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
11,758 Views
13 Pages

Recent Enhanced Seasonal Temperature Contrast in Japan from Large Ensemble High-Resolution Climate Simulations

  • Yukiko Imada,
  • Shuhei Maeda,
  • Masahiro Watanabe,
  • Hideo Shiogama,
  • Ryo Mizuta,
  • Masayoshi Ishii and
  • Masahide Kimoto

17 March 2017

Since the late 1990s, land surface temperatures over Japan have increased during the summer and autumn, while global mean temperatures have not risen in this duration (i.e., the global warming hiatus). In contrast, winter and spring temperatures in J...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,193 Views
19 Pages

15 March 2017

In this study, horizontal wind (U and V), air temperature (T), and relative humidity (RH) modelled by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis Interim (ERA-Interim), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,409 Views
11 Pages

14 March 2017

In this work, we examined spatial and temporal trends for light rain days based on daily precipitation measurements, obtained from 1960 to 2014, from 590 meteorological stations in China. For the analyzed time interval, light rain days over eastern C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,062 Views
20 Pages

A Case Study of Assimilating Lightning-Proxy Relative Humidity with WRF-3DVAR

  • Ying Wang,
  • Yi Yang,
  • Dongxia Liu,
  • Dongbin Zhang,
  • Wen Yao and
  • Chenghai Wang

14 March 2017

Lightning network data, considered as a useful supplement to radar observations, are a good indicator of severe convection, and has high temporal and spatial resolution. In Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models, lightning data are a new source of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,623 Views
40 Pages

With rainfall changes, hydrological process variability increases. This study predicts the potential effects of temperature and topography characteristics on rainfall spatial variability. Temperature and topography were considered as two effective fa...

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Atmosphere - ISSN 2073-4433