Atmosphere, Volume 17, Issue 3

Under global climate change, flood processes exhibit significant non-stationarity due to multiple driving factors, rendering traditional frequency analysis methods based on stationarity assumptions inadequate for accurate risk assessment. This study,...

A retrospective analysis of atmospheric volatile organic compounds in urban Beijing during spring 2017–2019 and 2025 reveals a profound transition in pollution characteristics following long-term control policies. Integrating field observations...

Climate change has intensified the need for adaptation in urban environments, yet its integration into historic urban squares, where recreational activities were heavily concentrated, has remained underexplored. In this context, the study examined th...

The relationship between the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) shows pronounced decadal variability, and the modulation of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the Pacific Decadal Osc...

The evaporation of gasoline serves as an important contributor to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) within urban regions. However, most previous studies have focused on summertime gasoline evaporation, with relatively limited attention to wintertime...

Tropical cyclones are among the most destructive meteorological systems on Earth. Accurate track forecasting of tropical cyclones remains a core challenge in atmospheric science, and it is of great significance for disaster prevention and mitigation....

This paper presents a re-analysis of the track and the intensity of tropical cyclone Senyar, an unprecedented tropical cyclone that formed over the Strait of Malacca south of 5 degrees North, moving eastwards towards the South China Sea. This cyclone...

High-quality ecological environments are vital for sustainable agro-pastoral development. This study evaluated the spatiotemporal dynamics of ecological environment quality (EEQ) in Zalait Banner from 2000 to 2022 using the Remote Sensing Ecological...

In July 2024, a severe rainfall event struck Sichuan Province, Southwest China, triggering deadly landslides and causing significant societal impacts. This study investigates the spatiotemporal characteristics and underlying mechanisms of the event u...

Near-surface air temperature measurements are sensitive to solar radiation and ambient longwave irradiance, which can introduce measurement errors of approximately 1 °C. This study presents the design and experimental validation of a high-accurac...

The 21st-century scientific landscape is characterized by the convergence of complexity science, interdisciplinarity, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) as key transformative trends. Together, these elements are reshaping how science approache...

This study analyzes the record-breaking persistent heatwave–drought compound event that occurred in Jiangxi Province, China, from July to September 2022. The results indicate that this event was the most severe in the past 44 years, with heatwa...

This study aimed to derive a more accurate and representative ammonia emission factor specifically for Hanwoo manure composting. We monitored real-time emissions using a large-scale flux chamber 2400 m³), which we modified from an actual composting s...

This study analyzes the interannual trends in the Total Duration of Thunderstorms (TDT) in the Northern Caspian Region (Atyrau region, Kazakhstan). While TDT has generally increased, consistent with Northern Eurasian trends, a sustained local decreas...

There is ongoing debate about the extent to which societies are insufficiently prepared for extreme heat and heatwaves [...]

Accurate prediction of PM_2.5 concentration is crucial for air quality management and public health protection. However, existing methods often struggle to capture and interpret the nonlinear relationships among multiple atmospheric variables. This st...

To improve diagnostics and prediction of changes caused by increased impact of anthropogenic activity, it is necessary to increase the comparative analysis of measurements and modeling of ozone—one of the climatically important atmospheric gase...

Ambient gamma radiation is a key component of environmental radiation monitoring and is strongly modulated by atmospheric and meteorological processes. This study presents a long-term analysis of near-surface gamma radiation measured in Ponta Delgada...

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are globally distributed toxic contaminants. Since 1990, mosses have been used in the UNECE European Moss Survey as cost-effective biomonitors of atmospheric deposition. This study provides the first predictive ma...

To address the challenge of rapidly selecting optimal numerical model products for weather forecasting in critical applications such as aviation route planning, this study proposes an enhanced object-based methodology comprising individual object sco...

In recent years, more and more studies have been published on the impact of air pollution on the increase in the incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in children and adolescents. To confirm this, we attempted to show whether there are differe...

Intercomparison studies between satellite-based and ground-based radar systems are essential for advancing radar technologies and improving precipitation retrieval algorithms. This study conducted a systematic literature review of Global Precipitatio...

Weather radar provides continuous, large-scale observations of aerial biological activity. However, biological echoes typically exhibit weak signals, sparse distributions, and non-stationary abrupt variations, causing existing extrapolation models to...

The boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation (BSISO) over the western North Pacific (WNP) exhibits significant phase asymmetry, but a systematic classification of its asymmetric modes and their regional climatic impacts remains insufficiently explored...

Aerosol–cloud interactions (ACIs) remain a long-standing uncertainty in quantifying cloud microphysical properties, convection, and precipitation. There are fewer investigations into the effects of ACIs on the southwest vortex (a mesoscale circ...

There is an urgent need to find methods to reduce the discomfort caused by suspended pollutants in the atmosphere during pollen seasons with concurrent influenza circulation, which refers to a temporal overlap period (typically late spring in the tem...

Atmospheric aerosols in Southeast Asia, influenced by climate and seasonal circulation, are examined here. This study analyzes the impact of the 2015 El Niño and monsoonal variability on aerosol properties over Penang, Malaysia, from 2015&ndas...

Atmospheric turbulence is a critical factor limiting the imaging resolution of ground-based solar telescopes. This study presents a systematic investigation of the intensity and vertical distribution of daytime atmospheric turbulence during winter at...

To quantify how ambient temperature affects hybrid electric vehicle emissions, a diesel hybrid electric vehicle was tested under three different temperatures by a chassis dynamometer in this work. The results show that the total NOx emission factors...

Recently, an attempt was made to quantify the respective solar and anthropogenic influences on the terrestrial climate, and to cautiously predict the global mean temperature over the next 130 years. In a double regression analysis, both the binary lo...

The air quality index (AQI) depends on the concentrations of six pollutants (PM_2.5, PM₁₀, SO₂, NO₂, O₃, and CO). We propose a hybrid Prophet–LSTM forecasting framework with an improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to tune the fus...

This study proposes a method for retrieving ocean sea surface salinity (SSS) using C/X-band ocean emissivities in coastal regions, aiming to verify the performance of these unconventional frequencies for SSS retrieval in warm, high-salinity-variation...

Accurate AQI forecasting is essential for public health and environmental management. However, existing network models for AQI forecasting still exhibit limited predictive accuracy, with insufficient consideration of key influencing factors in curren...

Virtual impactors are widely used for particulate matter (PM) classification due to their advantages of small cut-off particle size, simple structural design, ease of operation, and high particle handling capability, enabling subsequent analysis base...

We evaluated the effect of ammonium sulfate, a major component of airborne particulate matter, in the quantification of airborne micro- and nanoplastics (AMNPs) by analytical pyrolysis–gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS). Analytical...

Urban sustainable mobility requires understanding how people travel, which modes they use, and what impacts these choices generate. This study proposes a smart mobility analytics framework that integrates GPS traces, dynamic traffic variables, and ma...

Shallow-convective clouds (SCCs) play important roles in the Earth’s atmospheric system by affecting radiative balance, large-scale circulation, and transport of pollutants. It is common sense that topography exerts substantial impacts on SCCs....

In order to improve the robustness and internal consistency of evapotranspiration estimation in arid regions and to reveal the characteristics of water consumption structure within a river basin, this study focused on the Aksu River Basin. Multiple d...

In this study, a bench test was conducted employing the Worldwide Harmonized Light-duty Vehicles Test Cycle (WLTC) to investigate the emission rates of hydrocarbons (HCs), carbon monoxide (CO), and carbon dioxide (CO₂) with two different gasolines an...

Against the backdrop of the ongoing advancement of China’s dual-carbon goals and the coordinated strategy for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin (YRB), it is important to clarify the spatiotemporal dyna...

This study employs a difference-in-differences (DID) design to evaluate the impact of China’s Environmental Vertical Management Reform (EVMR) on urban concentrations of six major air pollutants. The findings reveal a pronounced efficacy hierarc...

This study investigated an intense and unusual summer transboundary dust storm event that occurred between 21 and 23 June 2024. By integrating remote sensing observations, reanalysis data, WRF-Chem simulations, and LAGRANTO trajectory tracking, we sy...

The low-altitude atmospheric environment has been receiving increasing attention in recent years due to rising human activities and the emerging growth of the low-altitude economy. Urban wakes generate highly inhomogeneous, multiscale turbulent flows...

Vegetation physiological processes are critical regulators of terrestrial carbon–water cycles and local microclimate dynamics, with photosynthetically active radiation (PAR, 400–700 nm) serving as a primary driving force. However, most ve...

The impact of air pollution on human health remains a critical issue. This study investigates the concentrations of PM_2.5 and PM_2.5–10 and translates measured exposure concentrations to internal human dose using the Exposure Dose Model 2 (ExDoM...

Addressing the challenge of stable cloud velocity field estimation under complex sky conditions in ground-based cloud imaging, this paper proposes a comprehensive 3D cloud velocity calculation framework. The methodology integrates binocular stereo vi...

Day-to-day temperature variability (DTD) significantly affects human health and ecosystems, yet its representation in major reanalysis datasets has not been systematically evaluated. This study assesses the ability of four widely used reanalysis data...

Urban air pollution from road traffic remains a major public health concern, with its spatial variability at neighbourhood scales strongly influenced by urban morphology. This study investigates how urban form affects the dispersion of traffic-relate...

Atmospheric turbulence refers to the random and irregular airflow in the three-dimensional Earth’s atmosphere, and the atmospheric refractive index structure constant $C_n^2$ is often used to quantitatively express the intensity of atmospheric turb...

Soil moisture is a critical variable in the eco-hydrological processes of arid regions; however, the vertical stratified mechanisms of soil moisture response to meteorological factors in artificial grassland remain inadequately quantified. Based on 1...