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Atmosphere, Volume 9, Issue 12

December 2018 - 49 articles

Cover Story: Hot summer conditions often lead to poor air quality. This picture shows simulated ozone (in the centre) at 3 pm on the 18th of January 2013 that is caused by reactions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as isoprene in the presence of oxides of nitrogen (NOx). The warm temperatures exacerbate both the production of isoprene and the chemistry that leads to ozone production. This, combined with the meteorology (the wind speed and the direction, and the evolution of the planetary boundary layer (PBLH)), leads to elevated ozone concentrations in regions downwind. View this paper.
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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,610 Views
12 Pages

Effects of Forage Rice Cultivation on Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Balances in a Rice Paddy Field

  • Fumiaki Takakai,
  • Masahiro Kobayashi,
  • Takashi Sato,
  • Kentaro Yasuda and
  • Yoshihiro Kaneta

19 December 2018

The effects of conversion from staple rice to forage rice on carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) balances in a paddy field were evaluated. A staple rice plot without the application of livestock manure compost (LMC, S − M plot) and forage rice plot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,598 Views
25 Pages

19 December 2018

Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) corresponding to four convective intensive observation periods of Sagebrush Phase 1 tracer experiment were conducted with realistic boundary conditions using Weather Research and Forecast model (WRF). Multiple nested doma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,207 Views
16 Pages

18 December 2018

Sea spray aerosol (SSA) is highly enriched in marine-derived organic compounds during seasons of high biological productivity, and saturated fatty acids comprise one of the most abundant classes of molecules. Fatty acids and other organic compounds f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
7,489 Views
31 Pages

A Review of Ice Cloud Optical Property Models for Passive Satellite Remote Sensing

  • Ping Yang,
  • Souichiro Hioki,
  • Masanori Saito,
  • Chia-Pang Kuo,
  • Bryan A. Baum and
  • Kuo-Nan Liou

17 December 2018

The current wealth of spaceborne passive and active measurements from ultraviolet to the infrared wavelengths provides an unprecedented opportunity to construct ice cloud bulk optical property models that lead to consistent ice cloud property retriev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,371 Views
22 Pages

Urban Air Quality in a Coastal City: Wollongong during the MUMBA Campaign

  • Clare Paton-Walsh,
  • Élise-Andrée Guérette,
  • Kathryn Emmerson,
  • Martin Cope,
  • Dagmar Kubistin,
  • Ruhi Humphries,
  • Stephen Wilson,
  • Rebecca Buchholz,
  • Nicholas B. Jones and
  • David W. T. Griffith
  • + 8 authors

17 December 2018

We present findings from the Measurements of Urban, Marine and Biogenic Air (MUMBA) campaign, which took place in the coastal city of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. We focus on a few key air quality indicators, along with a comparison to r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,057 Views
18 Pages

17 December 2018

Precise source identification for ambient pollution incidents in industrial parks were often difficult due to limited measurements. Source area analysis method was one of the applicable source identification methods, which could provide potential sou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,203 Views
17 Pages

17 December 2018

Besides local emissions, long-range transportation of polluted air masses also has a huge impact on haze pollution. In this study, the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model was used to determine the transport paths a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,484 Views
14 Pages

14 December 2018

In this study, two novel narrow bandpass filters (BPF) obtained from the high-resolution transmission molecular absorption (HITRAN) data for a carbon monoxide (CO) non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) analyzer were investigated and compared with a commerci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,140 Views
22 Pages

14 December 2018

Optimal Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (QPE) of rainfall is crucial to the accuracy of hydrological models, especially over urban catchments. Small-to-medium size towns are often equipped with sparse rain gauge networks that struggle to captur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,908 Views
24 Pages

14 December 2018

The magnitude and timing of seasonal rainfall is vitally important to the health and vitality of key agro-ecological and social-economic systems of the Niger River Basin. Given this unique context, knowledge concerning how climate change is likely to...

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