The enigma of spurious echoes: Enhancing phase transition height detection in shallow convective precipitation with GPM DPR
May 2026
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) core satellite’s Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) provides new insights into detecting solid-to-liquid phase transition heights of precipitation particles....
CLKA-LPO: A CNN-LSTM-KAN neural network for lightning potential and flash rate prediction based on atmospheric physical parameters
May 2026
Lightning poses significant risks to infrastructure and safety. Existing forecasting models depend on LPI data but often ignore the impact of atmospheric parameters on lightning. These methods are simple...
Interannual variability of thunderstorm days over the Tibetan Plateau: Synergistic effects of the Indian Ocean basin-wide mode modulation and CAPE forcing
May 2026
This study investigates the interannual and decadal variability of dominant summer thunderstorm day anomaly modes over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) using observational data from 39 stations during 1979–2013,...
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...
Research on the correlation between meteorological radar echo characteristics and lightning warning technology
May 2026
Based on radiosonde, lightning locator, and meteorological radar observational data in the central region of Shanxi Province from 2021 to 2024, the correlation between radar reflectivity characteristics...
Investigating the outer spiral tornado mechanism in Typhoon Mujigae
May 2026
To investigate how horizontal vortex tubes influenced the developmental stages of the tornado that formed in the outer rainbands of Typhoon Mujigae in Foshan, China, on 4 October 2015, the authors carried...
Thunderstorms without tropopause penetration in Central Africa produce cloud-top jet events
May 2026
Using multi-satellite observations, the authors examined 20 upward discharge events from thunderstorms (15 blue jets (BJs)/blue starters (BSs) and 5 gigantic jets (GJs)) observed by ISUAL (Imager of...
A dual-weighted loss function for lightning nowcasting
May 2026
Lightning associated with severe convective weather poses a significant threat to public safety and infrastructure. While traditional numerical weather prediction and statistical methods have limitations...
Infrared brightness temperature–based indicators for identifying thunderstorm clouds: Insights from FY-4A satellite observations
May 2026
Accurate monitoring and timely identification of early indicators of thunderstorms are of paramount importance in preventing and mitigating the potential disasters associated with such meteorological...
Near-term projection of precipitation over the southern Tibetan Plateau constrained by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
May 2026
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) precipitation is crucial for the ecosystem, yet its near-term changes, which demand urgent climate adaptation, remain underexplored. The near-term (2026–2055) projection of...
On the possible meteorological factors contributing to lightning-ignited wildfires in West Sichuan: A case study of MuLi wildfire in March 2019
May 2026
Lightning-ignited wildfires (LIWs) are a significant type of natural disaster in forest ecosystems. However, due to their high randomness and complexity, they remain difficult to detect and precisely...
Explainable machine learning insights into nighttime heterogeneous HONO formation in urban Shanghai during winter
Available online 31 May 2026
Nitrous acid (HONO) is a key precursor of OH (hydroxyl radicals) and plays an important role in regulating air quality. However, the mechanisms driving its formation remain incompletely understood....
A multi-temporal convolutional attention network for South Indian Ocean Dipole prediction
Available online 22 May 2026
The South Indian Ocean Dipole (SIOD) is another critical sea surface temperature (SST) mode in the Indian Ocean besides the Indian Ocean Basin Mode (IOBM) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). It plays...
X-band phased-array radar data assimilation for a case study on a weak tornado numerical simulation in the westerlies
Available online 22 May 2026
This study examines a weak tornado event triggered by a westerly trough in Foshan, Guangdong, on 19 June 2022, using high-resolution numerical simulations initialized with X-band phased-array radar...
A novel index for regional stratospheric wave reflection and its impact on surface air temperature over North America
Available online 22 May 2026
Accurately identifying stratospheric wave reflection is crucial for understanding wintertime extremes. Using ERA5 (fifth generation ECMWF atmospheric reanalysis) data from 1979 to 2023, this study establishes...
Upper Hadley circulation intensity response to future global warming scenarios
Available online 22 May 2026
The upper-level intensity of the Hadley circulation (UP-HCI) is critical for subtropical climate and extreme events, as it directly governs the poleward transport capacity in the upper troposphere....
Inter-model diversity among CMIP6 models in simulating summer precipitation over Zambia
Available online 21 May 2026
Precipitation over southern Africa remains highly uncertain in coupled climate models. This study investigates inter-model diversity in the climatological austral summer precipitation over Zambia during...
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...
Development of a paddy rice module coupled with the Noah-MP-Crop model
Available online 20 May 2026
The expansion of rice cultivation significantly influences regional climate change due to flooded conditions with a surface water layer. By incorporating dynamic surface water depth, plant height, and...
On the nonstationary characteristics of near-surface turbulent fluxes over farmland
Available online 20 May 2026
Based on full-year data collected in 2017 at Shouxian Station in Anhui Province, China, this study investigates the characteristics of nonstationary turbulence over farmland. The results show that nonstationary...
Dynamical controls on subseasonal forecast skill of dry-to-wet whiplash events over China
Available online 20 May 2026
Dry-to-wet whiplash (DWW) events, characterized by a rapid transition between persistent opposite precipitation extremes, represent a temporally sequential compound extreme rather than an isolated anomaly....
Orbital variability of Eocene climates in western East Asia: A modeling study
Available online 15 May 2026
Geological records indicate that in western East Asia, particularly at the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, basins start to show significant sediments cycles during the middle to late Eocene,...
Attribution of Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon intensification in the mid-pliocene: Insights from PlioMIP2
Available online 14 May 2026
To project the Northern Hemisphere (NH) summer monsoon under global warming, it is necessary to fully understand the effects of major climatic forcings including increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations...
Multidecadal variability of Northern hemisphere land monsoon precipitation dominated by explosive volcanic eruptions over the last millennium
Available online 14 May 2026
Volcanic eruptions are among the most profound sources of natural external radiative forcing of the climate system, imparting significant impacts on global and regional climate. Previous studies have...
Variations of the Hadley circulation in the past 250 million years
Available online 14 May 2026
Extensive studies have consistently demonstrated the widening and weakening of the Hadley circulation (HC) under increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in modern and projected future climates. However,...
