ECAS 2020 - 33 articles
Online | 16–30 November 2020
Volume Editor:
Anthony R. Lupo, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Spatiotemporal distribution of the soil moisture content of 0–10 cm underground has been assessed across the aroclimatic zones of Ukraine for the period 2000–2019. Calculated Soil Moisture Anomaly Index (SMAI) was used to characterize the degree of s...
Pollutant emissions from vehicles form major sources of metallic nanoparticles entering the environment and surrounding atmosphere. In this research, we spectrochemically analyse the chemical composition of particle matter emissions from in-use diese...
High horizontal resolution regional climate model simulations serve as forcing data for crop and dynamic vegetation models, for generating possible scenarios of the future effects of climate change on crop yields and pollinators. Here, we performed c...
We present our field results of ice-nucleating particle (INP) measurements from the commercialized version of the Portable Ice Nucleation Experiment (PINE) chamber from two different campaigns. Our first field campaign, TxTEST, was conducted at West...
The temporal variability of solar shortwave radiation (SSR) has been assessed over northern Eurasia (40°–80° N; 10° W–180° E) by using an SSR reconstruction model since the middle of the 20th century. The reconstruction model estimates the year-to-y...
This study considers how feedlot dust size and composition contribute to atmospheric
ice nucleation and the formation of local cloud and precipitation in the Texas Panhandle. [...]
An important aspect in environmental sciences is the study of air quality, using statistical methods (environmental statistics) which utilize large datasets of climatic parameters. The air quality monitoring networks that operate in urban areas provi...
Transportation sources are a major contributor to air pollution in urban areas. The role of air quality modeling is vital in the formulation of air pollution control and management strategies. Many models have appeared in the literature to estimate n...
Jaipur has seen rapid development in the last two and a half decades being the capital city of Rajasthan and its proximity to the National capital region of India, directly impacting its environment. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to...
Atmospheric moisture transport plays an important role in the genesis of tropical cyclones (TCs). In this study, the moisture sources associated with the genesis of TCs in the tropical Atlantic Ocean near West Africa, from June to November in the per...
The overarching goal of the current study is to quantify the aerosol-induced clear-sky direct radiative effects (DREs) within the Earth-atmosphere system at the global scale and for the 40-year period 1980–2019. To this aim, the MERRA-2 aerosol radia...
Current changes in climate conditions due to global warming affect the phenological behavior of economically important cultivable plant species, with consequences for the food security of many countries, particularly in small vulnerable islands. Thus...
Airborne sub-micrometer particles (PM1) have been documented to exert adverse impacts on human health, including respiratory and cardiovascular disease and premature mortality. The Greater Athens Area (GAA), characterized by topographic and meteorolo...
Air pollution is one of the main environmental problems in large urban centers, affecting people’s health and impacting quality of life. The Metropolitan Area of São Paulo (MASP) presents frequent exceedances of air-quality standards in inhalable par...
Particulate matter (PM) comprises a mixture of chemical compounds and water particles found in the air. The size of suspended particles is directly related to the negative impact on human health and the environment. In this paper, we present an analy...
The hybrid polarimetric architecture of Mini-SAR and Mini-RF onboard Indian Chandrayaan-1 and LRO missions were the first to acquire shadowed polar images of the Lunar surface. This study aimed to characterize the surface properties of Lunar polar an...
Using a database on wildfires recorded by remote sensing for 1996–2020, we assessed the seasonal variation of direct carbon emissions from the burning in Siberian forests. We have implemented an approach that takes into account the combustion paramet...
Stratiform and convective rain are associated with different microphysical processes and generally produce drop-size distributions (DSDs) with different characteristics. A previous study, using data from a tropical coastal location found that the two...
Quantifying the spatiotemporal variability of rainfall is the principal component for the assessment of the impact of climate change on the hydrological cycle. A better understanding of the quantification of variability and its trend is vital for wat...
To meet the incoming growth of the world’s food needs, and the demands of climate change, the agricultural sector will be forced to adapt its practices. To do so, the contribution of agricultural fields to greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the imp...
Black Carbon (BC) aerosols mass concentration was studied at Surat, Gujarat (India), a coastal region near the Tapi River at the Gulf of Khambhat. Using satellite data for solar extinction due to Black Carbon (BC) mass concentration, data were collec...
In the present study, dust aerosol episodes (DAEs) in the broader Mediterranean Basin (MB) are investigated over a 15-year (2005–2019) period using contemporary MODIS Collection 6.1 and OMI OMAERUV satellite data and a satellite algorithm applying a...
One of the most crucial variables in agricultural meteorology is solar radiation (Rs), although it is measured in a very limited number of weather stations due to its high cost in both installation and maintenance. Moreover, the quality of the data i...
This paper presents an overview of the favorable risk factors in agriculture in terms of encumbering this area of inevitable climate change. The development of a sustainable agriculture is combined in the paper by pointing out the needs on which agri...
This study examines how the mass concentrations of gaseous species (NO, NO2, NOx, O3, SO2, CO, C6H6) and particulate matter PM10, PM2.5 (particulate matter less than 10 µm and less than 2.5 μm) might be linked with precipitation characteristics...
In large cities, pollution can not only cause deaths and illness due to exposure of people to it, but it can also reduce visibility on days of high atmospheric stability and high emission of pollutants, which can even result in vehicular accidents. O...
Electricity production through renewable energy sources, such as wind energy, is dependent on the variability of weather conditions. Thus, this work aimed to assess the wind resource available and the wind energy potential (WEP) during recent Decembe...
The Selenga is one of the crucial transboundary rivers of the semi-arid Northern Eurasia belt. The Selenga basin is located in Mongolia and Russia, and it is 83.4% of the Lake Baikal basin. Atmospheric precipitation is the primary source of the river...
A sensitivity study was developed with Lin, Morrison 2-moment, weather research and forecasting (WRF) single-moment 5-class (WSM5), and WRF single-moment 6-class (WSM6) microphysics schemes available in the weather research and forecasting-advanced r...
This brief research report is aimed to make a first approach to the study of the type of precipitation associated with a set of atmospheric river (AR) events over the Atlantic region of Galicia. Fifteen ARs that made landfall in the Spanish region of...
The present study was a first attempt to quantitatively evaluate an existing satellite-based rain estimation algorithm using measurements from a network of ground-based meteorological stations. The study domain was the Epirus region (the rainiest reg...
This study investigated the number of tropical cyclones (TCs) that affected Puerto Rico during the June-November hurricane season in the period 1980–2016, and their contribution to the total precipitation. Special attention was dedicated to assessing...
The variability in the intensity and frequency of extreme hydro-meteorological events due to climate change have an enormous impact on managing water resources in developing countries. Frequently it has been recognized as sudden droughts and severe f...
