This study is the first to use the observation data of a fog monitor, a visibility meter, and an automatic weather station to carry out a comprehensive observation experiment from the perspective of microphysics on a severe sea fog process in Beilun...
Some thunderstorms in Cordoba, Argentina, present a charge structure with an enhanced low-level positive charge layer, and practically nonexistent upper-level positive charge. Storms with these characteristics are uncommon in the United States, even...
The Southwest China vortex (SWV) is a high-impact mesoscale cyclonic vortex that typically originates over Sichuan Province, China, and frequently produces hazardous rainfall. Yet systematic knowledge of the structural and microphysical properties of...
Millimeter wave cloud radar (MMCR) is one of the primary instruments employed to observe cloud–precipitation. With appropriate data processing, measurements of the Doppler spectra, spectral moments, and retrievals can be used to study the physi...
The northeastern China cold vortex (NCCV) is the main weather system affecting Northeast China. Based on the precipitation products from the dual-frequency precipitation radar (DPR) onboard the Global Precipitation Measurement core observatory (GPM)...
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the microphysical structures of Meiyu heavy rainfall (near-surface rainfall intensity > 8 mm/h) across different life stages in the Yangtze-Huaihe River Valley (YHRV). We classified the heavy rainfal...
A field campaign in Liupan Mountains was carried out by the Weather Modification Center of the China Meteorological Administration to study the impact of terrain on precipitation in Northwest China. The vertical structures and microphysical character...
Stratocumulus clouds are cloud systems composed of stratiform clouds with embedded convective clouds, possessing strong catalytic potential and serving as key target cloud systems for weather modification operations. In this study, the parameterizati...
A squall line that occurred in south China on 31 March 2014 was simulated with the Weather Research and Forecasting model. The microphysical processes had an important influence on the dynamic and thermodynamic structure of the squall line. The proce...
Strong magnetic fields and anisotropic stresses can substantially modify the structure and observable properties of compact stars. In this review, we present a unified treatment of magnetically induced anisotropy across neutron stars, hybrid stars, a...
Hail is one of the most destructive warm-season severe convective hazards in China, yet the structure and microphysical evolution of hail-bearing clouds vary markedly among regions. Using GPM DPR/GMI observations together with ERA5 reanalysis during...
The Northeast China Cold Vortex (NCCV), a typical synoptic-scale system in Northeast China, North China, and the Jianghuai region, frequently triggers thunderstorms, strong winds, and heavy precipitation, making it significant for meteorological moni...
Heavy precipitation in Northeast China is frequently modulated by the Northeast China Cold Vortex (NCCV), although the microphysical processes within squall lines under such conditions remain insufficiently understood. This study presents a comprehen...
Thunderstorms can generate intense electrical activity, hail, and result in substantial economic and human losses. The development of very short-term forecasting tools (nowcasting) is essential to provide information to alert systems in order to mobi...
Global precipitation measurement (GPM) is one of the effective means employed to observe orographic precipitation, and its inversed GPM DPR data can be used to study the microphysical structure of precipitation particles. This study considers statist...
Drop-size distributions (DSDs) provide important microphysical information about rainfall and are used in rainfall estimates from radar. This study utilizes a four-year DSD dataset of 163 rain events obtained using a Joss–Waldvogel impact disdr...
Based on the Morrison Two-Moment Scheme coupled with the non-inductive electrification mechanism and the discharge parameterization scheme in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, a thunderstorm process was simulated by using the WRF elec...
We investigated whether Top-of-Atmosphere Shortwave (TOA SW) anisotropy—essential to convert satellite-based instantaneous TOA SW radiance measurements into TOA SW fluxes—is sensitive to cloud-top effective radii and cloud-topped water va...
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) and the Arctic are both cold, fragile, and sensitive to global warming. However, they have very different cloud radiative effects (CRE) and influences on the climate system. In this study, the effects of cloud microphysics on...
To investigate the impact of advanced microphysics schemes using single and double moment (WSM6/WDM6) schemes, numerical simulations are conducted using Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for a severe mesoscale convective system (MCS) forme...
We developed a reference look-up table (RLUT) of particles of spheroidal shape. This RLUT will be used in our lidar-data inversion algorithm we have developed in the past 25 years for the retrieval of microphysical parameters of non-spherical particl...
Studies have shown that deforestation can cause changes in energy, moisture, and precipitation flows, with implications for local and regional climate. These studies generally focus on understanding how the hydrological cycle is impacted by deforesta...
Marine boundary layer (MBL) clouds strongly influence radiation and precipitation over the Southern Ocean (SO), yet their vertical structures and microphysical properties remain poorly constrained across observational platforms. This study compares m...
In previous studies, radar reflectivity is often directly assimilated using reflectivity operators based on a single-moment (SM) microphysics scheme, though the forecast model uses a double-moment (DM) microphysics scheme. With the fixed number conce...
To gain a deeper understanding of the formation and evolutionary mechanisms of a bow-shaped squall line (BSL) that occurred in East China on 10 May 2021, observations from S-band dual-polarization radars, a disdrometer and other instruments are used...
Cloud microphysical processes significantly impact the time variation and intensity of precipitation. However, due to the high altitude of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and the lack of observational data, the understanding of cloud microphysical processes...
The aim of this work was to reveal the differences in the macro- and microphysical characteristics and precipitation mechanisms of tropical precipitation systems (TPSs) in different regions. Based on the GPM satellite observation from 2014 to 2022, g...
Understanding and forecasting hurricanes remains a challenge for the operational and research communities. To accurately predict the Tropical Cyclone (TC) evolution requires properly reflecting the storm’s inner core dynamics by using: (i) high-resol...
The macro- and microphysical properties of clouds can reflect their vertical physical structure and evolution and are important indications of the formation and development of precipitation. We used four-year merged CloudSat-CALIPSO-MODIS products to...
In this study, a dual-polarimetric radar observation operator is established and modified for the Taiwan area for the purpose of model verification. A severe squall line case during the Southwest Monsoon Experiment Intensive Observing Period 8 (SoWME...
The intensity and frequency variability of cyclones in the North Indian Ocean (NIO) have been amplified over the last few decades. The number of very severe cyclonic storms (VSCSs) over the North Indian Ocean has increased over recent decades. “Phail...
Stratiform clouds with embedded convective cells is an important precipitation system. Precise knowledge of the cloud’s microphysical structure can be useful for the development of a numerical weather prediction model and precipitation enhancement. A...
Most astrophysical systems (except for very compact objects such as, e.g., black holes and neutron stars) in our Universe are characterized by shallow gravitational potentials, with dimensionless compactness
The statistical characteristics of precipitation microphysics in lightning clouds are not yet fully understood, as a result of the limitations of traditional observational methods. Using the latest observations from the dual-frequency radar and micro...
Mêdog is located at the entrance of the water vapor channel of the Yarlung Tsangpo Great Canyon on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau (TP). In this study, the seasonal variation in the microphysical vertical structure of stratiform precipitation...
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Institutional violence against transgender individuals in healthcare is a structural phenomenon with multifactorial roots and is embedded in social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of the microph...
We propose a microphysical completion for the scalar sector of dilatonic gravity by identifying the dilaton with the coarse-grained stiffness mode of a constrained complex tension field defined on a discrete relational network. Under a controlled ord...
Intense rainfall events frequently occur in Brazil, often leading to rapid flooding. Despite their recurrence, there is a notable lack of sub-daily studies in the country. This research aims to assess patterns related to the structure and microphysic...
Supercooled liquid water (SLW) in mixed-phase clouds significantly influences precipitation efficiency and aviation safety. However, a comprehensive understanding of its vertical structure has been hampered by a lack of sustained, vertically resolved...
Super Typhoon Mujigae (2015) was simulated using the WRF-ARW model version 4.1 with the WSM3, WSM5, WSM6, and WSM7 microphysics schemes, which include 3, 5, 6, and 7 hydrometeor classes, respectively. This study investigated the species number of hyd...
Radio jets and the lobes they inflate are common in cool-core clusters and are known to play a critical role in regulating the heating and cooling of the intracluster medium (ICM). This is an inherently multi-scale problem, and much effort has been m...
This paper presents an analysis of the morphology and columnar microphysical properties of atmospheric aerosols in Mexico City (MC) for the period 2022–2023. The morphological study focused on the structure description of soot particles and tar...
To further enhance the application of dual-polarization radar in hail nowcasting, we develop an integrated convective characteristic extraction (ICCE) algorithm based on the storm cell identification and tracking (SCIT) algorithm using dual-polarizat...
Tropical-like cyclone (TLC or medicane) Ianos formed during mid-September 2020 over the Southern Mediterranean Sea, and, during its mature stage on days 17–18, it affected southern Italy and especially Greece and its Ionian islands, where it br...
Remote sensing of clouds and precipitation is undergoing a significant transition from descriptive observations toward process-oriented diagnoses. This transition has not progressed linearly, but has gradually taken place alongside the rapidly develo...
Cloud seeding is a targeted weather modification strategy aimed at enhancing precipitation, particularly in regions facing water scarcity. This study evaluates the impacts of wintertime cloud seeding events in the western United States, focusing on t...
Polarimetric radar and disdrometer observations obtained during the 2014 Observation, Prediction, and Analysis of Severe Convection of China (OPACC) field campaign are used in this study to investigate the microphysical characteristics of three prima...
A cold vortex is an important weather system that can cause low temperatures and large amounts of rainfall. Many scientific studies have focused on the climatological features of the cold vortex along with its formation, maintenance, structure, circu...
Typhoon In-Fa hit continental China in July 2021 and caused an unprecedented rainfall amount, making it a typical case to examine the ability of numerical models in forecasting landfalling typhoons. The record-breaking storm was simulated using a 3-k...
Fourteen-month precipitation measurements from a second-generation PARSIVEL disdrometer deployed in Beijing, northern China, were analyzed to investigate the microphysical structure of raindrop size distribution and its implications on polarimetric r...
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