State of China's climate in 2022
November 2023
China experienced a warm and dry climate in 2022. The average annual surface air temperature (SAT) was 10.51°C, which was the second highest since 1961. The annual average rainfall was 606.1 mm, which...
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Deep learning in extracting tropical cyclone intensity and wind radius information from satellite infrared images—A review
July 2023
Tropical cyclones (TCs) seriously endanger human life and the safety of property. Real-time monitoring of TCs has been one of the focal points in meteorological studies. With the development of space...
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More extreme-heat occurrences related to humidity in China
September 2023
The co-occurrence of day and night compound heat extremes has attracted much attention because of the amplified socioeconomic and human health impacts. Based on ERA5 hourly reanalysis data, this study...
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Progress and future prospects of decadal prediction and data assimilation: A review
January 2024
Decadal prediction, also known as “near-term climate prediction”, aims to forecast climate changes in the next 1–10 years and is a new focus in the fields of climate prediction and climate change research....
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The ocean response to climate change guides both adaptation and mitigation efforts
July 2022
The ocean's thermal inertia is a major contributor to irreversible ocean changes exceeding time scales that matter to human society. This fact is a challenge to societies as they prepare for the consequences...
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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...
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U-Net: A deep-learning method for improving summer precipitation forecasts in China
July 2023
A deep-learning method named U-Net was applied to improve the skill in forecasting summer (June–August) precipitation for at a one-month lead during the period 1981–2020 in China. The variables of geopotential...
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Climatic drivers of the Canadian wildfire episode in 2023
Available online 4 March 2024
Extreme wildfires broke out in Canada from May 2023 and persisted four months. Tremendous fire emissions posed significant impacts on the air quality in both local and downwind regions. Here, the authors...
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Ascending phase of solar cycle 25 tilts the current El Niño–Southern oscillation transition
January 2024
A La Niña condition in the equatorial Pacific began in the early summer of 2020 and has lasted more than two and a half years (referred to as the 2020 La Niña hereafter). Predicting its temporal evolution...
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Decadal prediction skill for Eurasian surface air temperature in CMIP6 models
January 2024
The Eurasian surface air temperature (SAT) is experiencing decadal variations against the background of global warming. The prediction skill for the seasonal mean SAT in CMIP6 Decadal Climate Prediction...
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A generative adversarial network–based unified model integrating bias correction and downscaling for global SST
January 2024
This paper proposes a global sea surface temperature (SST) bias correction and downscaling unifying model based on the generative adversarial network. The generator of the model uses a bias correction...
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Future changes in compound drought events and associated population and GDP exposure in China based on CMIP6
Available online 4 January 2024
Compound drought events, in which several types of drought occur at the same time, usually causes more harm to human society than just one type of drought event on its own. In this study, skill scoring...
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Research progress on the water vapor channel within the Yarlung Zsangbo Grand Canyon, China
Available online 9 January 2024
The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program tasked a research team with the “Investigation of the water vapor channel of the Yarlung Zsangbo Grand Canyon (INVC)” in the southeastern...
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Role of land–atmosphere coupling in persistent extreme climate events in eastern China in summer 2022
March 2024
In 2022, eastern China was wet in the north and dry in the south, and characterized particularly by a persistent compound extreme event with high temperatures, low precipitation, and dry soil during...
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Prediction of ENSO using multivariable deep learning
July 2023
A novel multivariable prediction system based on a deep learning (DL) algorithm, i.e., the residual neural network and pure observations, was developed to improve the prediction of the El Niño–Southern...
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Predicting climate anomalies: A real challenge
January 2022
In recent decades, the damage and economic losses caused by climate change and extreme climate events have been increasing rapidly. Although scientists all over the world have made great efforts to...
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Multi-model ensemble forecasting of 10-m wind speed over eastern China based on machine learning optimization
September 2023
Wind substantially impacts human activity and electricity generation. Thus, accurately forecasting the short-term wind speed is of profound societal and economic significance. Based on 100 weather stations...
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Interdecadal changes in the frequency of winter extreme cold events in North China during 1989–2021
Available online 5 February 2024
How extreme weather and climate events change is an intriguing issue under global warming. By investigating the frequency of extreme cold events (Frexces) in winter over North China (NC), this paper...
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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...
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The Tibetan Plateau bridge: Influence of remote teleconnections from extratropical and tropical forcings on climate anomalies
January 2024
Recent advances in the bridging roles played by the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are reviewed in terms of the remote influence of circulation anomalies over the North Atlantic Ocean on Asian monsoon and El...
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Microphysical processes of the “21·7” Henan extremely heavy rainfall event as simulated with the Thompson microphysics scheme
Available online 9 February 2024
A numerical simulation was performed using the Thompson microphysics scheme to preliminarily investigate the features of the microphysical processes involved in the record-breaking rainfall event that...
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Anthropogenic influence on the extreme drought in eastern China in 2022 and its future risk
January 2024
In July–August 2022, eastern China was hit by an extreme drought event characterized by extraordinarily long persistence. The authors selected the minimum accumulated precipitation during a consecutive...
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Enhanced atmospheric phosphorus deposition in Asia and Europe in the past two decades
September 2021
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Heat waves in summer 2022 and increasing concern regarding heat waves in general
January 2023
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Implications of the extremely hot summer of 2022 on urban ozone control in China
Available online 8 February 2024
Frequent occurrences of extreme heat are causing severe ozone pollution over China. This study examined the driving factors of urban ozone pollution in China during the extremely hot summer of 2022...
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