Showing papers in "Atmospheric Research in 2021"

TL;DR: In this paper, future drought characteristics over China are analyzed by using four climate models from CMIP6 under the seven SSP-RCP (shared socioeconomic pathway-representative concentration pathway) scenarios (SSP119, SSP126,SSP434, SSA245, SSSP460, SSE370, and SSP585) for three defined periods of 2021-2040 (near-term), 2041-2060 (mid-term) and 2081-2100 (long-term).

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed evaluation of the spatial precipitation patterns presented by the ERA-Interim, ERA-5, ERA5-Land, and refined HAR datasets with spatial resolutions from coarse to fine (0.7°, 0.25°, and 0.1°, respectively) over the southern slope of central Himalaya, Nepal.

TL;DR: In this article, changes in the concentrations of the six criteria air pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO, and O3) in Wuhan were investigated before (January 1 to 23), during (January 24 to April 5, 2020), and after the COVID-19 lockdown (April 6 to June 20, 2020) periods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Kolmogorov-Zurbenko filter was used to detect surface ozone levels in China and the effect of meteorology on ozone variations was analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of 30 Global Circulation Models (GCMs) of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) were evaluated from 1951 to 2014 over six climate zones in arid Central Asia (ACA) using the Climate Research Unit TS 4.04 (CRU) precipitation datasets as reference.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the underlying atmospheric dynamics associated with intense dust storms in summer 2018 over the Arabian Peninsula (AP); a major dust source at global scale, using high-resolution in-situ and CERES-SYN satellite observational data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of 35 GCMs of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) was evaluated in replicating APHRODITE rainfall in the Mainland South-East Asia (MSEA) for the period 1975-2014.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors used a gap-filling method to generate full-coverage AOD by fusing AOD data from satellite (Himawari-8 and MODIS) and weather forecast model (CAMS), and additional meteorological and geographical variables.

TL;DR: An overall improvement of air quality is found by analyzing data from 31 provincial cities, due to varying degrees of NO2, PM2.5, PM10 and CO reductions outweighing the significant O3 increase, and East China became the region with largest daily avoided economic loss.

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of a large number of Global Circulation Models belonging to the latest release of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) in comparison with its predecessor CMIP5 are evaluated for monthly precipitation and temperature over Turkey (i.e. climate change hotspot).

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review of scientific articles, published from January 2020 to December 2020 across the globe, is presented to provide further insights into air quality, and the policy implications of their review in the context of global air quality improvement.

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of precipitation estimates from historical runs of the CMIP6 (Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6) over the climatic regions of Iran was analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the utility of integrated long-term satellite-based precipitation and evapotranspiration products for drought monitoring over mainland China was comprehensively evaluated, and four typical drought events were selected to analyse the ability of SPEIs to characterize the temporal-spatial evolution of drought situations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the ability of sixteen Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) models to simulate present-day precipitation extremes over the Eastern Africa region during the two rainy seasons (March-May and September-November) defined by the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the contributions of different VOC sources to atmospheric chemical reactivity rate, ozone formation potential, and secondary organic aerosol formation potential (SOAP) using positive matrix factorization (PMF) model were determined using hourly observation of ambient VOCs at a megacity of Central China.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effect of urban heat wave on urban heat island (UHI) and showed that the UHI intensity is not amplified during the heat wave, maintaining its peak near 2.5 °C during both heat wave and non-heat wave periods.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated the accuracy of TRMM 3B42 version 7 and IMERG final version 6 products at 677 stations in the 7 subregions of China over 2000-2019 at the daily, monthly and annual timescales based on gauge-observed precipitation data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the DLR product from the latest ERA5 atmospheric reanalysis and the well-known Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite retrievals, against high-quality observations collected at 46 Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) stations over land surfaces and at 9 Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array (GTMBA) buoy stations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the precipitation performance over the Yangtze River basin (YRB) from 18 models against observations during 1961-2014, before using the relevant simulations for scientific investigation and policy making.

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of remotely-sensed precipitation with rain gauge as reference is evaluated, taking the rain gauge data as a reference for the period of 2004 to 2018 over Pakistan.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present various methodologies that have been developed to collect road dust, ranging from the most rudimental scoop sweeping until more sophisticated devices with size-selective inlets to capture the more worrisome fraction: the inhalable resuspended particulate matter.

TL;DR: In this article, in-situ observations from Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), remotely sensed precipitation data from Climate Hazard Infrared Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS), reanalysis data from ERA5, and National Center for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) during 1981-2018 are used to explore the atmospheric circulation patterns during above and below normal precipitation episodes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the historical and future simulations of precipitation in South Korea from INM-CM4 of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) 5 and in CMIP6 to identify their differences for the projections of corresponding scenarios by three timeframes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of urban schemes integrated in the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) using Local Climate Zones (LCZ) as land use classification is evaluated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the spatial-temporal variations of surface layer ozone (O3) and PM2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic equivalent diameter of 2.5μm or less) observed from April 2013 to December 2019 in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region to identify the O3-PM2.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the annual ozone trends at different altitudes from 2013 to 2018 based on ozonesonde observations in the southern suburb of Beijing and found that large differences in ozone concentrations were observed among different years and were most significant within 2 km above the ground.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the projected changes in precipitation, maximum temperature (Tmax), and minimum temperature(Tmin) over the Yangtze River Basin (YRB) based on 23 Global climate models (GCMs) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Gumbel and GEV Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) to calculate the probability of extreme rainfall events in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented an approach to obtain long-term high-resolution precipitation datasets over complex-terrain areas by combining the ERA5 reanalysis with short-term High-resolution atmospheric simulation.

TL;DR: Based on satellite precipitation data of global precipitation measurements from 2015 to 2018, the influence of the topography on the spatial and temporal distributions of the precipitation in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) was evaluated as mentioned in this paper.