Heatwaves induce blood pressure elevations in elderly hypertensive populations: Evidence from a panel study
July 2026
Climate change has intensified extreme heat events, increasing cardiovascular risk, especially among older individuals with hypertension, due to compromised thermoregulation and vascular function. This...
Compound extreme events and health risks in China: A review
September 2025
Against the backdrop of global warming, China has been facing increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather and climate events, with a prominent risk of compound extreme events induced by interactions...
Remote influence of the subtropical westerlies on the track of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal
September 2026
This study investigates the remote influence of the subtropical westerlies on the tracks of tropical cyclones (TCs) in the Bay of Bengal (BOB) from 1979 to 2019, combining statistical analysis and numerical...
Nowcasting of cloud-to-ground lightning location and frequency based on a deep learning technique
May 2026
Predicting lightning that can cause power grid trips is significant for disaster prevention. This paper integrates cloud-to-ground lightning detection, water vapor and infrared channel as well as channel...
Physical impacts of integrating excess ice into Earth system models on pan‑Arctic permafrost simulations
Available online 20 August 2026
Excess ice refers to ground-ice bodies in permafrost whose volume exceeds the soil pore space, and its melting can cause abrupt permafrost thaw. However, only a few Earth system models (ESMs) currently...
Regionally distinct drivers of intensifying summer concurrent hot and dry events in China
Available online 20 May 2026
Concurrent hot and dry events (CHDEs) have become increasingly frequent and intense in recent decades, posing severe threats to ecosystems, agricultural systems, and human society. This study investigated...
Surface flux–induced salinity change and its effects on ocean stratification in response to global warming
January 2026
Global warming induced by increased CO2 has caused marked changes in the ocean. Previous estimates of ocean salinity change in response to global warming have considerable ambiguity, largely attributable...
State of China’s climate in 2025
November 2026
In 2025, China experienced a pronounced warm–wet climate regime. The national annual mean temperature tied with the 2024 record as the highest observed since 1961, while nationwide annual precipitation...
Impacts of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on global fire PM2.5 during 2000–2023
May 2025
The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a key driver of global climate variability, profoundly influencing regional fire activities and associated pollutant emissions. This study investigates the...
Solar forecasting with large vision–language models
Available online 1 June 2026
Assessment of global meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought under future warming based on CMIP6
January 2022
Quantifying the changes and propagation of drought is of great importance for regional eco-environmental safety and water-related disaster management under global warming. In this study, phase 6 of...
A rain-gauge fusion framework using Box–Cox transformation and LETKF to improve reanalysis precipitation estimates over China
Available online 22 July 2026
Reanalysis precipitation products provide spatially complete and temporally continuous estimates but remain subject to biases arising from model deficiencies and physical parameterizations. This study...
The record-breaking compound heatwave and drought event in 2024 over the Sichuan basin, Southwest China
Available online 2 February 2026
During August to September 2024, the Sichuan Basin in Southwest China experienced a record-breaking compound heatwave and drought event (CHDE)—the most severe since 1980. This event was characterized...
Ozone layer recovery weakens the Antarctic tundra carbon sink
Available online 22 June 2026
The accelerated healing of the Antarctic ozone hole is leading to a steady decline in ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth’s surface. Yet, the impacts of UV radiation reduction on carbon fluxes...
State of China’s atmospheric environment in 2025
November 2026
The year 2025 experienced appreciable improvements in both PM2.5 and O3 air quality over China but with strong regional differences. Relative to 2022–2024, the national PM2.5 concentration in 2025 was...
A systematic approach to developing an effective AI-based bias correction model
Available online 6 March 2026
This study introduces ReSA-ConvLSTM, an AI framework for systematic bias correction in numerical weather prediction. The authors propose three innovations by integrating dynamic climatological normalization,...
3D DBSCAN detection and parameter sensitivity of the 2022 Yangtze river summertime heatwave and drought
July 2023
Spatially and temporally accurate event detection is a precondition for exploring the mechanisms of climate extremes. To achieve this, a classical unsupervised machine learning method, the DBSCAN (Density-Based...
Evaluation of the Pangu model in forecasting rapid intensification of tropical cyclones
September 2026
To validate the Pangu model’s forecasting capability for the rapid intensification (RI) process of tropical cyclones (TCs), forecasts of different RI/non-RI TCs were produced both by the Weather Research...
Improving hail nowcasting using multi-source data and a WMHDA-enhanced DIFF-Transformer
September 2026
HailPre is a deep learning framework developed for accurate 60-minute hail nowcasting at 10-minute intervals, tailored for regions with complex terrain and imbalanced hail event distributions. It integrates...
Northeast China cold vortex in early summer and its monthly statistical prediction model based on preceding external forcings
Available online 30 July 2026
The Northeast China cold vortex (NCCV) is a major weather system affecting Northeast China in early summer (May and June). In this study, a monthly NCCV index (NCCVI) is defined based on its large-scale...
Seasonal variability of the Agulhas Front’s position and intensity: Insights from satellite-derived sea surface temperature and chlorophyll-a concentration data
September 2026
Frontal zones function both as thermal boundaries demarcating water masses and as ecological transition zones. This study proposes a “range–gradient” methodology to investigate the seasonal variability...
DeepOE: A physics-informed neural network for atmospheric temperature profile retrieval
Available online 27 January 2026
Existing retrieval methods based on infrared hyperspectral data still face limitations. On the one hand, physics-based iterative algorithms require multiple radiative transfer calculations, resulting...
A climatology of the tropopause transition layer over the Asian summer monsoon derived from COSMIC radio occultation
Available online 24 August 2026
The Asian summer monsoon (ASM) system is a significant pathway for lifting lower tropospheric water vapor and pollution into the global stratosphere, yet the structure of the overlying tropopause transition...
Key physical processes of the 2024 La Niña suppression from the perspective of air–sea antagonism
Available online 29 June 2026
Many climate models significantly overestimated the likelihood of a 2024 La Niña, revealing a substantial challenge in El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) prediction. This study employs an ENSO ensemble...
Trends and characteristics of global CH4 emissions: Insights from UNFCCC greenhouse gas inventories
September 2025
The trends and characteristics of global CH4 emissions were analyzed using greenhouse gas data reported by both Annex I and non-Annex I countries under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...