Atmosphere, Volume 14, Issue 1

This paper aims to present simple regressive equations to estimate the parameters of the three-parameter depth–duration–frequency (DDF) curve (3p-DDF), which accurately expresses, for a preassigned return period, the relationship between...

The ease of travel allowed by contemporary means of long-range transportation has brought increasingly higher numbers of visitors to remote and relatively undisturbed insular territories. In a framework of environmental conservation of the natural pa...

An updated climatology of EF1+ (Enhanced Fujita category 1 or stronger) tornadoes in Italy (445 events in the period of 1990–2021) confirms that the central Tyrrhenian (CT) and the southeastern (SE) regions of the Italian peninsula represent tw...

Summer in the East Asian monsoon region is characterized by heavy rainfall and high temperature. Its onset, depicted by monsoon rainfall and/or airflow as well as surface air temperature, has been well documented. However, the onset of summer season...

Particulate matter (PM) pollution has caused several environmental problems and damaged human health. To understand the different driving forces of PM_2.5 and PM₁₀, we investigated the spatial distribution of PM_2.5, PM₁₀, and the ratio of PM_2.5 to PM₁...

In order to find potential low-frequency signals and provide new ideas for extended-range forecasting, the intraseasonal oscillation (ISO) characteristics of persistent high temperature events (PHTEs) in the extended summer in Jiangnan area are explo...

Evaluating the impact of different meteorological conditions on apple yield and predicting the future yield in Yantai City is essential for production. Furthermore, it provides a scientific basis for the increase in apple yield. In this study, first,...

The rising volume of wastewater sludge and sugarcane bagasse is becoming a prominent concern globally. Furthermore, the growing demand for fuel coupled with the depletion of fossil fuel reserves in South Africa demonstrates the need for alternative e...

Flash floods are a major weather-related risk, as they cause more than 5000 fatalities annually, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Quantitative Precipitation Estimation is a method used to approximate the rainfall over locations whe...

Rapid and highly sensitive detection of iodine gaseous species is crucial as the first response in case of nuclear accidents and nuclear waste clean-up. A robust and user-friendly sensor-based technology that allows online monitoring is highly desira...

This study aims to determine the reasons for the increase in the frequency of sand and dust storms in the Middle East and to identify their sources and mitigate them. A set of climatic data from 60 years (1960–2022) was analyzed. Sand storms in...

To understand the pollution characteristics of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the glass deep-processing industry, samples were collected using polyvinyl fluoride bags and quickly transferred to summa tanks for GC/MS/FID analysis. The emission c...

Heat waves (HWs) with high humidity are dangerous to human health. However, existing studies on different types of HWs considering the effect of humidity are still limited. This study defines three types of wet summer HWs (that is, wet independent da...

Mist spraying is a technique for locally lowering air temperature by spraying fine mist into the air and using the latent heat of evaporation immediately after spraying. This study focuses on the conditions under which mist spraying contributes to th...

The application of lateral boundary perturbations (LBPs) helps to restore dispersion in convection-allowing ensemble forecasts (CAEFs). However, the applicability of LBPs remains unclear because of the differences between convection systems. Short-ra...

Regulations for the control of air-pollutant emissions from ships within pollutant emission control areas (ECAs) have been issued for several years, but the lack of practical technologies and fundamental theory in the implementation process remains a...

Severe convective storms that produce tornadoes and straight-line winds usually develop under particular environmental conditions and have specific signatures on the cloud tops associated with intense updrafts. In this study, we performed a comparati...

The impact of relative humidity (RH) on organic new particle formation (NPF) from ozonolysis of monoterpenes remains an area of active debate. Previous reports provide contradictory results indicating both depression and enhancement of NPF under cond...

Remote sensing is the technique of acquiring data from the earth’s surface from sensors installed on satellites or on manned or unmanned aircrafts. Its use is common in dozens of sectors of science and technology, agriculture, atmosphere, soil,...

Recently, precursor gases such as ammonia have sparked a growing interest in the secondary formation of particulate matter (PM). Most studies focus on urban areas and scientific data. Studies on precursor gases and PM emitted from agricultural source...

Based on the energy policy simulation model (EPS model) and the reality of Zhejiang Province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the carbon pricing policy scenario and the early retirement policy scenario of coal power generation units were constru...

The invaluable meteorological observations for a late autumn tropical cyclone that came very close to Hong Kong, namely, Nalgae in November 2022, are documented in this article. In particular, the dropsonde data for two consecutive days for this late...

This study presents the algorithm ACTION, defined as automatic center detection of tropical cyclone (TC) using image processing based on the operational radar network. Based on the high visibility of weather radar imagery, a TC’s motion vector...

Cooking food in water or soup, such as hot pot, is a widely used cooking method in China. This type of cooking requires no oil and cooks at a lower temperature, but that does not mean it produces fewer pollutants or is less harmful. There are few res...

Features of the manifestations of various sources of disturbances in the atmospheric electric field at the Tien-Shan high-mountain station have been studied, and the statistical relationship between solar and thunderstorm activity has been establishe...

The Yangtze River Delta plays an important strategic role in China’s economic development pattern, and its carbon emission intensity, which reflects the development of a low-carbon economy, has attracted much attention. From the perspective of...

A crushed-rock embankment (CRE) with a high porous crushed-rock layer (CRL) can effectively cool the underlying permafrost through natural ventilation within the layer. However, in addition to the ambient conditions, the ventilation efficiency of the...

Public participation is playing an increasingly important role in environmental governance. This paper uses panel data from Chinese cities to evaluate the causal relationship between public participation, regional carbon emissions, and regional carbo...

At an urban site in Kenitra, Morocco, two aerosol size fractions (PM_2.5 and PM₁₀) were sampled for four seasons to characterize the seasonal trends of particulate (PM) and carbonaceous (BC) aerosols. An in-depth statistical analysis of the lag-effect...

For hazard assessment purposes, the dispersion of gases in complex urban areas is often a scenario to be considered. However, predicting the dispersion of heavy gases is still a challenge. In Germany, the VDI Guideline 3783, Part 1 and 2 is widely us...

Accurate ozone concentration simulation can provide a health reference for people’s daily lives. Simulating ozone concentrations is a complex task because near-surface ozone production is determined by a combination of volatile organic compound...

This work presents a software-defined radio ionosonde (ISDR) developed at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy) and the Institute of Radio Astronomy (Ukraine) and installed at the Ukrainian Antarctic Station in 2017. Fo...

As an important anthropogenic source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), industrial emissions have a significant impact on air quality and human health. In this study, the characteristics, chemical reactivities, and health risks of VOCs around an i...

The technique of machine learning has been increasingly applied in numerical weather predictions. The aim of this study is to explore the application of a neural network in data assimilation by making use of the convenience in obtaining the tangent l...

The longitudinal distribution of upper atmospheric density has been broadly studied. However, the studies mostly focused on 24 h averaged distribution. This study presents the longitudinal distribution of thermospheric density at dawn and dusk, using...

Emissions of airborne particulate matter are a major cause of air pollution. A numerical approach was used to establish a single-filter-bag cleaning model based on the discrete phase particle deposition distribution law to study the effect of pulse b...

The Chinese government introduced regulations to control emissions and reduce the level of NO_x pollutants for the first time with the 12th Five-Year Plan in 2011. Since then, the changes in NO_x emissions have been assessed using various approaches to...

The North Yellow Sea, located at the intersection of the Eurasian continent and North Pacific Ocean at mid-latitudes, is a sensitive area subjected to the joint actions of the ocean, land, and monsoons. On its southern shore, loess and paleosol sedim...

The multiple regression method is still an important tool for establishing precipitation forecast models with a lead time of one season. This study developed a flexible statistical forecast model for July precipitation over the middle-lower reaches o...

The Tarim Basin is a large inland arid basin in the arid region of northwest China and has been experiencing significant “warming and wetting” since 1987. As a result, the purpose of this paper is to determine whether the climate transiti...

The importance of effective ventilation as one of the measures against COVID-19 is widely recognized worldwide. In Japan, at the early stage of the pandemic, in March 2020, an official announcement was made about basic ventilation measures against CO...

With the rapid development of soil moisture estimation techniques involving remote sensing technology, the sampling designs used in soil moisture research are very important. To estimate the rational sample number for measuring near-surface soil mois...

During severe nuclear accidents, radioactive materials are expected to be released into the atmosphere. Estimating the source term plays a significant role in assessing the consequences of an accident to assist in actioning a proper emergency respons...

The present work analyses a time series of maximum intensities for sub-daily durations of 10 min, 20 min, up to 100 min, and their relationship with the maximum rainfall observations in twenty-four hours (P24), the total annual rainfall (PT), and the...

The management of the COVID-19 pandemic, which required global lockdowns and mobility restrictions, positively impacted air quality (especially the concentrations of primary pollutants). With the progressive return to normal activity during the last...

Forecasts of numerical weather prediction models unavoidably contain errors, and it is a common practice to post-process the model output and correct the error for the proper use of the forecasts. This study develops a grid-to-multipoint (G2N) model...

The Haifa Bay area (HBA) is a major metropolitan area in Israel, which consists of high volume transportation routes, major industrial complexes, and the largest international seaport in Israel. These, which lie relatively near densely populated resi...

Due to the limited number of air quality monitoring stations, the data collected are limited. Using supervised learning for air quality fine-grained analysis, that is used to predict the air quality index (AQI) of the locations without air quality mo...

Accurate site-specific estimations of surface wind speeds (SWS) would greatly aid clean energy development. The quality of estimation depends on the method of interpolating gridded SWS data to derive the wind speed at a given location. This work uses...

Ozone pollution in China has become increasingly severe in recent years. Considering the damage that extreme ozone pollution may cause and the fact that the occurrence of extreme ozone pollution among different locations may be related, this paper us...