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Urban growth and aerosol effects on convection over Houston: Part I: The August 2000 case
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In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of the growth of the Houston metropolitan area on the characteristics and intensity of convection and precipitation using the Town Energy Budget (TEB) urban model.About:
This article is published in Atmospheric Research.The article was published on 2010-06-01. It has received 58 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sea breeze & Precipitation.read more
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Urban impacts on precipitation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed urban impacts on precipitation and proposed causative factors (urban heat island, large surface roughness, and higher aerosol concentration) and mechanisms of urban-induced and/or urban-modified precipitation, with focus on downwind precipitation enhancement.
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Substantial contribution of anthropogenic air pollution to catastrophic floods in Southwest China
TL;DR: In this article, a high-resolution coupled atmosphere-chemistry model was used to investigate the role of anthropogenic pollution in the 2013 Sichuan Basin Flood and showed that heavy air pollution absorbs solar radiation in the lower atmosphere at the expense of surface cooling, which stabilizes the atmosphere and suppresses convection and precipitation over the basin.
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Meta-analysis of urbanization impact on rainfall modification.
Jie Liu,Dev Niyogi +1 more
TL;DR: This meta-analysis highlights the need for standardizing how the results are presented in future studies to aid the generalization of findings and highlights that rainfall increases not only downwind of the city but also over the city.
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A numerical study of interactions between surface forcing and sea breeze circulations and their effects on stagnation in the greater Houston area
TL;DR: In this paper, high-resolution simulations from the Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupled with an urban canopy model (UCM) are used to investigate impacts of soil moisture, sea surface temperature (SST), and city of Houston itself on the development of a stagnant wind event in the Houston-Galveston (HG) area on 30 August 2000.
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Changes in extreme daily rainfall for São Paulo, Brazil
Maria Assunção Faus da Silva Dias,Juliana Dias,Leila M. V. Carvalho,Edmilson Dias de Freitas,Pedro Leite da Silva Dias +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the evolution of daily rainfall extremes in the city of Sao Paulo (Brazil) from 1933 to 2010, and found that climatic indices including ENSO, PDO, NAO and the sea surface temperature at the coast near Sao Paulo explain 85% of the increasing frequency of extremes during the dry season.
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Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change
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A comprehensive meteorological modeling system?RAMS
Roger A. Pielke,William R. Cotton,Robert L. Walko,Craig J. Tremback,W. A. Lyons,Lewis D. Grasso,Melville E. Nicholls,M. D. Moran,Douglas A. Wesley,T. J. Lee,J. H. Copeland +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a range of applications of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS), a comprehensive mesoscale meterological modeling system, are discussed, including large eddy simulations (LES) and simulations of thunderstorms, cumulus fields, mesoscales, convective systems, mid-latitude cirrus clouds, winter storms, mechanically and thermally-forced meso-scale systems, and mesoscopic atmospheric disperision.
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Smoking Rain Clouds over the Amazon
Meinrat O. Andreae,Daniel Rosenfeld,Paulo Artaxo,Alexandre Araújo Costa,Göran Frank,Karla Longo,M. A. F. Silva-Dias +6 more
TL;DR: Heavy smoke from forest fires in the Amazon was observed to reduce cloud droplet size and so delay the onset of precipitation, which affects the water cycle, the pollution burden of the atmosphere, and the dynamics of atmospheric circulation.
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Suppression of rain and snow by urban and industrial air pollution
TL;DR: Direct evidence demonstrates that urban and industrial air pollution can completely shut off precipitation from clouds that have temperatures at their tops of about -10 degrees C over large areas.
Suppression of Rain and Snow by Urban and Industrial Air
TL;DR: This paper showed that urban and industrial air pollution can completely shut off precipitation from clouds that have temperatures at their tops of about -10 degrees C over large areas, showing that both cloud droplet coalescence and ice precipitation formation are inhibited in polluted clouds.