Toward enhanced capability for detecting and predicting dust events in the western United States: the Arizona case study [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2015 Dust aerosols affect human life, ecosystems, atmospheric chemistry and climate in various aspects. Some studies have revealed intensified dust activity in the western US during the past decades despite the weaker dust activity in non-US regions.
M. Huang +8 more
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Simulating the Urban Heat Island Augmented with a Heat Wave Episode Using ICTP RegCM4.7 in a Mega-Urban Structure of Karachi, Pakistan [PDF]
Journal of Soft Computing in Civil Engineering, 2021 The metropolis of Karachi, with a density of around 4000 persons/km2 at present, is going through unprecedented urbanization and population growth, which can augment Urban Heat Island (UHI) triggered heat wave impacts on life and living.
Burhan Ahmad +4 more
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Forecasting tropical cyclone rainfall and flooding hazards and impacts
Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, 2023 This review summarizes the rapporteur report on advances in monitoring and forecasting of rainfall associated with tropical cyclones (TCs) and its impact during 2014–18, as presented to the 10th International Workshop on TCs (IWTC-10) held in Bali ...
Alex Lamers +9 more
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应用气象学报, 2021 Regional persistent heat event is extensively studied and its intensity is normally investigated from the view of regional average. Climatic characteristics of persistent heat event in 4 regions in the eastern China are analyzed on the basis of ...
Lin Ailan +4 more
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Spin-up characteristics with three types of initial fields and the restart effects on forecast accuracy in the GRAPES global forecast system [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2021 The spin-up refers to the dynamic and thermal adjustments made at the initial stage of numerical integration in order to reach a statistical equilibrium state.
Z. Ma +17 more
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npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2022 The Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP), which affects the global climate system through supporting tropical convection, has been reported to expand significantly under greenhouse warming. Although early research revealed that the sea surface temperature (SST)
Jeremy Cheuk-Hin Leung +5 more
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Comparing daytime, equatorial E×B drift velocities and TOPEX/TEC observations associated with the 4-cell, non-migrating tidal structure [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2009 We investigate the seasonal and longitude dependence of the daytime, vertical E×B drift velocities, on a day-to-day basis, using a recently-developed technique for inferring realistic E×B drifts from ground-based magnetometer observations.
D. Anderson +4 more
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Evaluation of modeled surface ozone biases as a function of cloud cover fraction [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2015 A regional air-quality forecast system's model of surface ozone variability based on cloud coverage is evaluated using satellite-observed cloud fraction (CF) information and a surface air-quality monitoring system.
H. C. Kim +5 more
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European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2023 The geometric and polarimetric characteristics of the melting layer (ML) during the pre-summer rainy season over South China (PRSC) are investigated from 389 S-band polarimetric radar volume scans. The existing ML detection algorithm is slightly improved,
Hong Wang +3 more
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NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center Releases Two New Products
Space Weather, 2013 Key Points The NWS SWPC released two new forecast productsForecasts will be in more frequent and more easily understood mannerInformation is at an appropriate level to meet the sophistication of the ...
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