2026 February - 110 articles
Flowering street trees provide ecological services and health benefits to humans. In this study, three commonly used flowering street trees, Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Steud., Melia azedarach L., and Magnolia grandiflora L., were selected for analy...
Air pollution remains a major global public health concern, with fine particulate matter (PM2.5) recognized as an important environmental risk factor for lung cancer. This ecological study assessed lung cancer mortality attributable to long-term PM2....
Clouds are essential for regulating the hydrological cycle and Earth’s radiation budget, and their fluctuations over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) have a significant effect on both regional climate dynamics and global atmospheric circulation. Using...
This study examines two wildfire events in the southern Amazon in August 2021, addressing the challenges in investigating the development of pyro-convective clouds in tropical regions. The analysis combines the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index,...
This study develops a practical framework for forecasting long-term drought conditions in Karaman Province, a semi-arid region of Turkey, where accurate climate information is vital for water planning and agriculture. Since the area has limited rainf...
Much of the information for studying the processes of lightning discharge initiation and development is provided by studying thundercloud radio emissions in various frequency bands. The High-Frequency (HF) band better corresponds to the characteristi...
Acoustic precipitation enhancement (APE) is an emerging non-chemical weather-modification technique, yet quantitative three-dimensional evidence of its impact on rainy clouds remains scarce. This study investigates a stratiform precipitation event ov...
Understanding the coupling mechanisms between vegetation phenology and carbon productivity is essential for assessing ecosystem responses to climate change and guiding sustainable grassland management. This study focuses on stable alpine grasslands o...
The Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region is a critical political and economic hub in China, which has long faced challenges related to atmospheric conditions. Traditional aerosol optical depth (AOD) monitoring methods suffer from issues of...
We investigate the multi-layer atmospheric impacts of Typhoon Hagibis (2019), which formed on 6 October, tracked across 12–35° N and 135–155° E, and made landfall on 12 October over the Izu Peninsula, central Honshu, Japan. We pre...
Topography plays a crucial role in shaping local urban microclimates and can drive the formation of cold-air pools in valley bottoms. This study examines the Eiras Valley (Coimbra, Portugal), a rapidly growing peri-urban area, to identify the conditi...
Currently, there is a lack of systematic and quantitative analytical tools for dust emission control in open-pit iron mines. To address this research gap, this study constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system by integrating the Analytic Hiera...
The contribution of non-exhaust emissions (NEEs) to particle number concentration (PNC) remains insufficiently quantified, particularly across different urban environments. In this study, we address this gap by quantifying the contribution of NEEs to...
Atmospheric state estimation is an important part of weather forecasting, and its accuracy determines the accuracy of the forecasting results. Traditional methods for atmospheric state estimation mainly rely on assimilation systems, using physical mo...
Accurate humidity forecasts are crucial for environmental and operational applications, yet Numerical Weather Prediction systems frequently exhibit systematic and random errors. To address this problem, this study introduces a modified hybrid post-pr...
Climate warming and land degradation are reshaping Mediterranean and semi-arid ecosystems, yet their combined effects remain poorly quantified in North Africa. Using four Landsat reference epochs spanning 1984–2024, and four spectral/thermal in...
This study compares Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression and Random Forest models to analyze particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5, and PM10) concentrations based on meteorological and traffic data collected on major arterials in Karachi, Pakistan. OLS r...
As a critical agroforestry crop in Southern China, Moso bamboo, maintains regional timber security and bamboo shoot production, with its net ecosystem productivity (NEP) directly determining dry matter accumulation and economic yield. This study inte...
First continuous measurements of atmospheric CH4 were carried out for one year (June 2023–May 2024) at Liberti Observatory of CNR-IIA, in a semi-rural site near Rome. Seasonal and diurnal variations were analyzed. CH4 monthly mean concentration...
An extraordinary episode is a torrential rainfall event that produces significant societal impacts, which poses a major natural hazard in the western Mediterranean, particularly along the Valencia coast. This study evaluates the feasibility and added...
Mixed-phase clouds, in which liquid droplets and ice crystals coexist at temperatures between
To investigate the health risks of particulate matter during spring dust storms in Beijing, this study selected atmospheric particulate samples collected during a typical dust storm event in March 2021. The DNA damage rates induced by PM2.5 and PM10...
In the spring of 2023, dust outbreaks were unusually active in East Asia, posing substantial risks to air quality. Accurately simulating dust storms is essential for improving regional dust prediction and impact assessment. In this study, we evaluate...
A key component necessary to improve the performance of climate and weather forecasting models is understanding the physical mechanisms controlling tropical deep convection. In this study, the thermodynamic variables linked to deep convection within...
Tweeks are ELF/VLF radio signals originating from lightning discharges that exhibit dispersion due to their propagation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide. Examples of the waveforms of tweeks and their dynamic frequency-time spectra are presented and...
Lidar measurements of green laser light traveling inside snow can be modeled using Monte Carlo simulations. These simulations generate databases that link snow properties (such as snow depth and scattering mean free path) with lidar backscatter verti...
As Akasofu noted, no two geomagnetic storms are identical, yet the storm that occurred between 12 and 14 November 2025 stands out as an exceptional phenomenon. Its impact was evident across multiple layers of the ionosphere and numerous parameters, m...
The vertical structure and optical–microphysical properties of ice clouds determine their radiative effects. With an average altitude above 3000 m above mean sea level (AMSL) and unique thermal circulation, the Tibetan Plateau forms ice clouds...
High-resolution air-temperature fields are essential for climate, hydrologic, and ecological applications in complex terrain, yet operational products often lack the spatial detail to resolve topographic effects. We develop an observation-driven reco...
This systematic review synthesizes current scientific knowledge on the drivers of climate variability and change across the South Pacific, with a particular focus on mechanisms influencing tropical cyclone behavior and regional hydroclimatic extremes...
Airborne microplastics (AMPs) undergo ultraviolet (UV)-driven physicochemical aging during atmospheric transport, influencing cloud processes, greenhouse-gas release, and potential respiratory health impacts. Quantifying this transformation is partic...
A waterspout was sighted in the offshore waters of Hong Kong in mid-October 2025, the second-latest occurrence of this weather phenomenon in a single year since 1959. Due to the close proximity of the phenomenon to Lamma Island in Hong Kong, detailed...
Accurate forecasting of heatwaves is critical for ensuring the safe operation of electricity grids. Focusing on the complex terrain of Sichuan, China, this study investigates the optimization of spectral nudging parameters within the Weather Research...
The frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) in the Arabian Sea have increased in recent decades, heightening concerns regarding regional vulnerability and forecasting difficulties. This study examines the impact of the Madden–Julian...
Accurate cloud identification is crucial for understanding the rapid evolution of weather systems, improving the accuracy of short-term forecasts, and ensuring aviation safety. Compared with traditional cloud image recognition methods, deep learning...
A retrospective ozone simulation was conducted with the Microscale Forward and Adjoint Chemical Transport (MicroFACT) model for an industrialized area of Detroit, Michigan, USA, using a 24 km × 24 km horizontal × 1.5 km vertical grid. The...
Particulate Matter (PM) is a type of air pollution that poses risks to human health, the environment, and property. Among the various PM types, PM10 is particularly significant, as it acts as a vector for numerous hazardous trace elements that can ne...
The Southwest Asia Anticyclone (SWAA) plays a pivotal role in governing the regional precipitation regime. This study analyzes the structure and spatiotemporal variability of the SWAA core at the 850, 700, and 500 hPa levels, and its relationship wit...
Although heavy rainfall occurs infrequently during summer (June–August, JJA) in the Mu Us Sandy Land (MUSL), it has almost the same contribution to summer precipitation as light rainfall. However, it remains unclear on forcing mechanism of heav...
The conventional treatment of high-concentration volatile organic compounds (VOCs) relies on energy-intensive dilution to avoid explosion risks. This study proposes an efficient catalytic combustion process treating VOCs directly within the explosive...
Based on precipitation extremes calculated from high-resolution daily observational data in East China during 1961–2014, the performance of 34 climate models from phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) are assessed in term...
Flooding episodes caused by a heavy rainfall event have become more frequent, especially during the rainfall season in Botswana, which poses some socio-economic and environmental risks. This study investigates the capability of the Weather Research a...
As the most frequent dust event in the Tarim Basin (TB), persistent floating dust significantly impacts the regional weather and climate. Long-term analysis (2015–2024) showed that the occurrence of persistent floating dust is significantly ass...
In this paper, two improvements in precipitation classification have been performed. Supervised machine learning has demonstrated considerable performances in classification tasks. However, supervised machine learning can only be applied to labeled d...
With the increasing frequency extreme weather events associated with climate change, real-time monitoring of rainfall intensity is critical for water resource management, disaster warning, and other applications. Traditional methods, such as ground-b...
Validation of ICON model configurations optimized over a limited domain is essential before accepting new semi-empirical parameters that influence the behavior of subgrid-scale schemes. Because such parameters can modify the dynamics of a numerical w...
Recent studies have reported a rapid increase in short-duration, high-intensity rainfall over the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA), primarily associated with mesoscale convective systems (MCSs), highlighting the need for high-resolution and multi-platfo...
Tropical cyclones pose major risks to life and property, especially as coastal populations grow and climate change increases the likelihood of intense storms, making seasonal prediction of tropical cyclones an important scientific and societal goal....
Tree pollen allergies are influenced by regional atmospheric pollen concentrations and flora distribution. Climate change and urban landscaping have altered airborne pollen profiles in Ukraine, potentially affecting sensitization patterns. We examine...
Baroclinic wave resonance, particularly Rossby waves, has attracted great interest in ocean and atmospheric physics since the 1970s. Research on Rossby wave resonance covers a wide variety of phenomena that can be unified when focusing on quasi-stati...
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