In Guadeloupe (French West Indies), the main municipal solid waste is surrounded by highly urbanized areas. An urban heat island (UHI) behavior has been identified in the landfill environment. It has been measured and its intensity (up to more than 4 C) has been shown to be negatively correlated with nebulosity and Tradewinds strength. Conditions for urban breeze detection have been examined. T...

This study identifies coherent and robust large-scale atmospheric patterns of interannual variability of the South Asian summer monsoon (SASM) in observational data. A decomposition of the water vapor budget into dynamic and thermodynamic components shows that interannual variability of SASM net precipitation (P 2 E) is primarily caused by variations in winds rather than in moisture. Linear reg...

The diurnal variations in surface winds, rain, and clouds over Taiwan are presented for three rainfall regimes: the mei-yu (16 May–15 June), summer (16 July–31 August), and autumn (16 September–15 October). Though the magnitude of diurnal island divergence and convergence is similar under each regime, the diurnal variations of rain and clouds vary considerably between the regimes. These differe...

The purpose of this study is to examine the influences mesoscale thermal and dynamical processes near land-sea boundary on formation development a squall line across Hangzhou Bay (HZB) East China Sea that resulted in strong surface winds heavy rainfall. High-resolution spatiotemporal analyses obtained from Variational Doppler Radar Analysis System via assimilation radar observations are used fo...

Turbulent erosion has been proposed as a major mechanism for removing wintertime cold-air pools (CAPs) from basins and valleys. The time scales involved in this erosion process, which are of great interest for winter weather forecasting, have not been studied systematically in the past. In this short contribution, a semi-analytical model is developed to estimate the time required for the dissip...

Abstract This study investigates the seasonal climatology of three-dimensional distribution and transport pathways dust aerosols over West Asia (WA). Dust column loading WA exhibits strong seasonality, with markedly high (weak) during summer (winter). The features include (i) reaching up to 500 hPa level between Red Sea (RS) west coast Indian subcontinent (IS); (ii) a slantwise advection 850 70...

In a valley sheltered from strong synoptic effects, the dynamics of the valley 6 atmosphere at night is dominated by katabatic winds. In a stably stratified atmosphere, these 7 winds undergo temporal oscillations, whose frequency is given by N sinα for an infinitely 8 long slope of constant slope angle α , N being the buoyancy frequency. Such an unsteady 9 flow in a stably stratified atmosphere...