Pollution characteristics of peroxyacetyl nitrate in karst areas in Southwest China
March 2024
In recent years, the issue of photochemical pollution in the Guangxi region of China has escalated considerably. However, there remains a notable dearth of related research in this area. Peroxyacetyl...
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Enhanced rainfall in North China in July 2021: Role of the North Pacific SST gradient
March 2024
The rainfall over North China (NC) in July 2021 was the most since 1980, and coincided with a meridional gradient of sea surface temperature anomaly (MGSSTA) in the Pacific. The present study shows...
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Impacts of monsoon break events in the western North Pacific on the cross-equatorial flows over the Maritime Continent
March 2024
This study examines the possible impacts of western North Pacific (WNP) monsoon break events on the cross-equatorial flows (CEFs) over the Maritime Continent using daily data from ERA5 for 1979–2020....
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Trend in seasonal amplitude of northern net ecosystem production: Simulated results from IAP DGVM in CAS-ESM2
March 2024
Net ecosystem production (NEP) over northern latitudes has an obvious seasonal variation, which dominantly drives the seasonal variation in atmospheric CO2. Investigating these carbon processes and...
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A comparative study of the land–atmosphere energy and water exchanges over the Tibetan Plateau and the Yangtze River Region
March 2024
A comprehensive understanding of energy and water cycle characteristics in different regions is crucial for studying local land–atmosphere interactions and predicting regional weather and climate change....
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Climate prediction of the seasonal sea-ice early melt onset in the Bering Sea
March 2024
Based on the impact of large-scale circulation anomalies on sea-ice melting, this paper develops a statistical forecasting model for the seasonal sea-ice early melt onset (EMO) in the Bering Sea using...
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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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Westward extension of summer atmospheric circulation over the North Pacific after the 1990s
March 2024
This paper documents the westward extension of the summer atmospheric circulation over the North Pacific (NP circulation) around the 1990s and investigates the possible reason, based on the North Pacific...
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Recent urbanization increases exposure to humid-heat extreme events over populated regions of China
March 2024
Extreme-heat research has largely focused on dry heat, while humid heat, which presents a major societal impact, especially on human health, remains relatively understudied. Previous studies have revealed...
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Isolated deep convections over the Tibetan Plateau in the rainy season during 2001–2020
Available online 26 March 2024
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is a prevalent region for convection systems due to its unique thermodynamic forcing. This study investigated isolated deep convections (IDCs), which have a smaller spatial...
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Role of the Greenland Sea ice anomaly in the late-spring drought over Northwest China
Available online 23 March 2024
Drought across Northwest China in late spring has exerted a vital effect on the local climate and agricultural production, and has been alleviated during the past decades. This study explored the influence...
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Predominant types of regional cold waves in North China and their historical changes
Available online 21 March 2024
Cold wave (CW) events in East Asia have a significant impact on the social economy, ecosystems, and human health. Based on daily CW records from October to March during 1980–2019 and K-means clustering,...
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Atlantic blocking events in a simplified nonlinear baroclinic model for local finite-amplitude wave activity
Available online 12 March 2024
To better understand the mechanisms underlying the formation of blocking highs over the North Atlantic as a type of large-amplitude disturbance, this paper reports results from numerical experiments...
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Seasonal constraint of dynamic water temperature on riverine dissolved inorganic nitrogen transport in land surface modeling
Available online 12 March 2024
Riverine dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) transport plays an important role in the link between terrestrial and marine ecosystems, while the seasonal changes of water temperature exert a strong control...
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Comparison of tropical cyclone thermal structures derived from ATMS and synthetic AMSU-A/MHS
Available online 7 March 2024
The warm core of a tropical cyclone (TC) reflects its intensity and evolution. In the past, microwave sounding data have been widely used for detecting the TC warm core. However, the observed magnitude...
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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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Changes in tropical cyclone response to the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation in the western North Pacific under global warming in EC-Earth3P-HR
Available online 23 February 2024
EC-Earth3P-HR reproduces well the observed Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISO) and its impacts on tropical cyclone genesis (TCG) in the western North Pacific (WNP). Hence, the historical...
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Interdecadal change and projection of the relationship between spring Arctic Oscillation and summer precipitation in the Yangtze River valley in CMIP6 models
Available online 17 February 2024
This paper assesses the performance of 20 CMIP6 models in simulating the relationship between spring Arctic Oscillation (AO) and summer precipitation in the Yangtze River valley (YRP) over the period...
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Characteristics of tropical cyclone outflow over the western North Pacific
Available online 10 February 2024
This study employs the self-organizing map method to investigate the upper-tropospheric outflow patterns of tropical cyclones (TCs) over the western North Pacific from 1979 to 2019, using the 200 hPa...
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Classification analysis of prediction skill among ensemble members in MJO subseasonal predictions—based on the results of the CAMS-CSM subseasonal prediction system
Available online 9 February 2024
Given the inherent imperfections in models and the inevitability of initial condition errors, subseasonal prediction ability faces ongoing limitations. Most international numerical models employ ensemble...
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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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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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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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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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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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