Atmosphere, Volume 17, Issue 4

Dew constitutes a component of the near-surface water balance, but its large-scale fractal dynamical properties remain poorly documented across Africa. This study estimates dew amounts and investigates their fractal and multifractal behavior under Af...

Port activities significantly alter local atmospheric chemistry, yet the nonlinear coupling mechanisms between nitrogen oxides (NO_x) and ozone (O₃) in these complex environments remain underexplored. In this study, MF-DFA and MF-DCCA were applied to...

Due to the influence of multiple factors such as the physical and chemical properties of the atmosphere, the limitations of data sources, and the assumptions of inversion methods, there are many difficulties in inverting the concentration distributio...

Reliable emission monitoring is essential for effective environmental regulation and the operation of carbon markets. However, high-frequency CO₂ data from Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (CEMS) and material-based monitoring often contain inco...

Accurate short-term lightning forecasting requires reliable representations of both lightning occurrence and intensity, as well as the underlying convective processes. While ensemble prediction systems (EPSs) provide valuable probabilistic informatio...

Greenhouse gas emissions reductions are urgently necessary to mitigate the effects of climate change. Several protocols and agreements are in place to reduce emissions, but global emissions continue to rise nonetheless. This is in part due to emissio...

This study evaluates the performance of the state-of-the-art Alfred Wegener Institute Climate Model version 3 (AWI-CM3) in reproducing tropical cyclone (TC) genesis potential, utilizing two distinct genesis potential indices (GPIs): the Emanuel&ndash...

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between air pollution exposure and gut microbiota-related biomarkers among a cohort of healthy school-age children. A cross-sectional biomonitoring study was conducted among 11-year-old healthy...

Climate extremes are major constraints on agricultural productivity, especially in tropical regions experiencing rapid expansion and intensification of soybean agriculture. This study analyzes spatiotemporal changes in soybean yields in response to d...

Terminal lakes are crucial to maintaining ecological balance in arid and semi-arid regions. However, these lakes are increasingly facing severe ecological degradation due to human activities and climate change. This study aims to provide a sustainabl...

Space-to-ground optical communication has emerged as a critical development direction for future communication systems, owing to its advantages of a high bandwidth, strong confidentiality, and immunity to electromagnetic interference. However, its pr...

The accurate and timely nowcasting of severe weather events such as short-term torrential rainfall is essential for disaster preparedness and early warning systems. Our prior studies have demonstrated a high correlation (0.92) and ~10 min time lag be...

Radiocarbon (¹⁴C) serves as a unique physical tracer for fossil fuel CO₂ (CO_2ff) owing to its absence in ancient fuels. This review synthesizes methodologies and applications of ¹⁴C in quantifying CO_2ff emissions from urban to regional scales. It out...

Traffic-related emissions significantly contribute to fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) in urban roadside environments, where limited dispersion elevates human exposure and health risks. This study provides an integrated assessment of PM_2.5 exposure in...

Background: Health risks from radon exposure depend on long-term radon concentrations. This study quantified interannual variability in residential radon concentrations in Finland and evaluated its implications for exposure assessment and measurement...

Maritime transport is essential for global trade, yet ship emissions remain a major source of air pollution in coastal and port areas, with potential impacts on local air quality and human health. Cruise ships are particularly relevant in urban ports...

PM_2.5 is a major air pollutant characterized by complex sources and strong spatiotemporal heterogeneity. However, accurately quantifying the relative contributions of different factors remains difficult due to the lack of long-term datasets and the s...

A new nearness grey incidence model that not only measures the degree of correlation but also measures the direction is proposed to analyze the distribution characteristics of air pollutants in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, from 2016...

This study investigates ice crystal sedimentation calculation errors arising from three-moment bulk cloud scheme. Both offline tests and one-dimensional cloud model simulations indicate that sedimentation calculation errors are most pronounced at bot...

This paper presents the setup and evaluation of a high-resolution, regional, coupled ocean–atmosphere model to simulate tropical cyclones (TCs) in the North Atlantic Basin. This approach combines the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) atmos...

Against the backdrop of accelerated terrestrial hydrological cycling and the increasing concurrence of drought-heatwave compound extremes under global warming, regional land-atmosphere coupling has emerged as a central mechanism shaping climate feedb...

Atmospheric aerosols influence the terrestrial carbon cycle through diverse radiative and biogeochemical effects, yet their net impact on vegetation productivity remains contentious and region-specific. To address this, we analyzed the spatiotemporal...

Naphthalene and methylnaphthalene (Nap and MN) are the most abundant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and are important precursors of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in the atmosphere. 1.2-Phthalic acid (1,2-PhA) and 4-methylphthalic acid (4-M...

Accurately predicting the peak height of the F2 layer (hmF₂) is crucial for radio communications, satellite navigation, and space weather studies, yet traditional empirical models often lack precision. To address this, we developed a global hmF₂ pred...

Methane (CH₄) emissions in urban areas remain a major source of uncertainty in greenhouse gas inventories, particularly in Eastern European cities, where observational studies are limited. This study presents a comprehensive, system-based assessment...

This study presents a method to retrieve the electron density structure of the transient C-region using very-low-frequency (VLF) Earth–ionosphere waveguide propagation. Here, we demonstrate the identification of the C-region from amplitude vari...

The spatiotemporal dynamics of the Air Quality Index (AQI) and its response to vegetation regulation require further investigation. Using multi-source data from 2020 in Shandong Province, China, this study analyzed the effects of vegetation greenness...

This study develops a machine learning-based predictive model for identifying high-level clouds (HLCs). The model uses meteorological parameters as input features and is trained against human-recorded meteorological observations. A statistical analys...

With non-rainfall water (NRW), principally dew and fog, serving as an important water source, especially in arid and semiarid regions, factors that may increase the NRW yield may have important hydrological and ecological consequences. On the other h...

Accurate measurement of low-level radon concentrations in the environment is increasingly important for climate research, radon priority area delineation, and atmospheric studies. Adsorbent-based radon detectors offer high sensitivity but suffer from...

Italy and the surrounding seas are recognised as one of the European hotspots for tornadoes and waterspouts. In recent years, the town of Rosignano Solvay (on the Northern Tyrrhenian coast) experienced repeated waterspouts affecting the same areas, r...

Isoprene is a significant source of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in the atmosphere. This study investigates the physicochemical properties of isoprene-derived SOA formed through ozonolysis and photooxidation under varying NO_x conditions in an envi...

The aim of this study was to assess the impact of variations in the 3-hourly geomagnetic activity level during the period of the lowest solar and geomagnetic activity on the psychological state of patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graftin...

Green façades are acknowledged as passive strategies that reduce heat accumulation, enhance biodiversity, improve particulate matter absorption and provide psycho-physiological benefits for users. However, evaluations of their thermal performa...

Using satellite observations and computed variables, we specified 5 Subauroral Polarization Stream (SAPS) and 28 Subauroral Ion Drift (SAID) events observed in the Northern Hemisphere by spacecraft F18 in 2013. These SAPS-SAID flows reached supersoni...

Soil CO₂ emissions are critical for predicting terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks to climate change, yet significant knowledge gaps persist regarding carbon flux dynamics within the deep vadose zone and during freeze–thaw processes. In this study,...

Typhoon track prediction is an important research direction in weather forecasting. Although deep learning methods have achieved some progress in this field, challenges remain, including insufficient fusion of meteorological features, limited capabil...

Road transportation is a major contributor to global CO₂ emissions, yet the influence of road geometry on vehicular emissions remains insufficiently quantified under real-world conditions. This study investigates the effects of horizontal and vertica...

This modeling study investigates the impact of the 2023 Canadian wildfire aerosols (primarily black carbon and organic aerosol) on weather forecasts, concluding that incorporating real-time aerosol forcing improves model performance over using climat...

To investigate the temporal and spatial variations in smoking activities in Shanghai, atmospheric fine particles (aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 μm) were collected at four sites in different functional zones, a central urban site (XJH), an urban si...

Low-cost air quality sensors enable dense urban monitoring networks but require calibration against reference-grade instruments. While machine learning calibration is well-established for co-located sensor pairs, applying these calibrations to sensor...

Driven by rapid global urbanization and expanding urban footprints, air pollution, particularly from industrial emissions and vehicular exhaust, has intensified, with rising concentrations of inhalable particulate matter (PM) posing direct threats to...

The increasing share of wind power generation has intensified the occurrence of curtailment events in power systems worldwide, mainly driven by transmission constraints, operational limitations, and imbalances between generation and demand. In the Br...

Sulfur dioxide is a trace constituent of the upper atmosphere of Venus but plays a dominant role in the photochemistry above the cloud tops. Because SO₂ undergoes indirect dissociation to a relatively long-lived excited state, it has a line-type abso...