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Causes of the record-low Antarctic sea-ice in austral summer 2022

The Antarctic sea-ice area reached a record minimum during austral summer 2022 (December 2021 to February 2022), with particularly considerable loss in the West Antarctic. Based on lead–lag correlation...

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Will the summer sea ice in the Arctic reach a tipping point?

The Arctic sea-ice cover has decreased in extent, area, and thickness over the last six decades. Most global climate models project that the summer sea-ice extent (SIE) will decline to less than 1 million...

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Assessment of global meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought under future warming based on CMIP6

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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Wave forecast in the Atlantic Ocean using a double-stage ConvLSTM network

Accurate forecasting of ocean waves is of great importance to the safety of marine transportation. Despite wave forecasts having been improved, the current level of prediction skill is still far from...

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The ocean response to climate change guides both adaptation and mitigation efforts

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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Prediction of ENSO using multivariable deep learning

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

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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Heat waves in summer 2022 and increasing concern regarding heat waves in general

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3D DBSCAN detection and parameter sensitivity of the 2022 Yangtze river summertime heatwave and drought

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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Seasonal to interannual prediction of air pollution in China: Review and insight

Complex air pollution problems have resulted in considerable adverse impacts on the environment, human health, and economy in China. However, owing to strict regulations since 2013, the air quality...

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A cloud optical and microphysical property product for the advanced geosynchronous radiation imager onboard China's Fengyun-4 satellites: The first version

Fengyun-4 (FY-4), the latest collection of Chinese geostationary meteorological satellites, monitors the Eastern Hemisphere with high spatiotemporal resolutions. This study developed a cloud optical...

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Distribution of lightning spatial modes and climatic causes in China

This paper investigates the distribution of spatial modes of cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning activity across China's land areas during the period 2010–20 and their possible causes based on the CG lightning...

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Observed decadal shifts and trends in global tropical cyclone activities from 1980 to 2021

This study investigates the variability of annual tropical cyclone (TC) frequency and intensity over six major ocean basins from 1980 to 2021. Statistical change-point and trend analyses were performed...

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U-Net: A deep-learning method for improving summer precipitation forecasts in China

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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Short-term wind speed forecasting bias correction in the Hangzhou area of China based on a machine learning model

Accurate wind speed forecasting is of great societal importance. In this study, the short-term wind speed forecasting bias at automatic meteorological stations in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China,...

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State of China's Climate in 2020

This report is a summary of China's climate, as well as major weather and climate events, during 2020. In 2020, the mean air temperature in China was 10.25°C, which was 0.7°C above normal (1981–2010...

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Changes in snow parameterization over typical vegetation in the Northern Hemisphere

Seasonal snow is sensitive to climate change, and is always taken as a signal of local climate changes. As changes in snow differ locally in their characteristics, it is necessary to detect the effects...

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Performance of CMIP6 models in simulating the dynamic sea level: Mean and interannual variance

Observational data from satellite altimetry were used to quantify the performance of CMIP6 models in simulating the climatological mean and interannual variance of the dynamic sea level (DSL) over 40°S–40°N....

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Enhanced atmospheric phosphorus deposition in Asia and Europe in the past two decades

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A deep learning–based U-Net model for ENSO-related precipitation responses to sea surface temperature anomalies over the tropical Pacific

SST–precipitation feedback plays an important role in ENSO evolution over the tropical Pacific and thus it is critically important to realistically represent precipitation-induced feedback for accurate...

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Intensified haze formation and meteorological feedback by complex terrain in the North China Plain region

The North China Plain has been suffering from severe haze pollution in the past few decades. In addition to rapid urbanization and intensive anthropogenic emissions, the complex terrain in this region...

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Effects of solar radiation modification on the ocean carbon cycle: An earth system modeling study

Solar radiation modification (SRM, also termed as geoengineering) has been proposed as a potential option to counteract anthropogenic warming. The underlying idea of SRM is to reduce the amount of sunlight...

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The dry and hot American Southwest under the present and future climates

The American Southwest is undergoing alarming climate crises, suffering from the on-going mega drought, frequent flash flooding, heat waves, and wildfires that cause air pollution. The climate crises...

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A spatiotemporal 3D convolutional neural network model for ENSO predictions: A test case for the 2020/21 La Niña conditions

Many coupled models are unable to accurately depict the multi-year La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific during 2020–22, which poses a new challenge for real-time El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)...

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Assessment of CMIP6 model performance for temperature and precipitation in Xinjiang, China

In this study, the authors evaluate the skill of 42 climate models from phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) in reproducing the climatological temperature and precipitation in...

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