Abstract The physical hydroclimate system of the Amazon functions on several spatial and temporal scales. Large-scale processes control main seasonal patterns atmospheric circulation rainfall. Seasonal variability in solar forcing, associated with low rainforest albedo, provides energy for continental heating, convection, onset South American monsoon. Mesoscale cause localized circulations such...

Summer atmospheric coastal dynamics exert a significant influence on the levels and composition of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) in the North-Eastern Iberian Peninsula. Summer atmospheric scenarios in this region present a high degree of complexity as they are characterised by the absence of synoptic-scale air mass advections, the development of breeze circulations, enhanced photochemistr...

Dust uplift is a nonlinear thresholded function of wind speed and therefore particularly sensitive to the long tails of observed wind speed probability density functions. This suggests that a few rare high-wind events can contribute substantially to annual dust emission. Here we quantify the relative roles of different wind speeds to dust-generating winds using surface synoptic observations of ...

The regional climate of the Arabian Gulf (AG) and its variability are examined based on a 40-year (1980–2019), 5-km reanalysis Peninsula (AP reanalysis). AP fields were first validated against available observations over AG, suggesting that this high-resolution well reproduces spatio-temporal features AG atmospheric circulations. then analysed to examine climatic characteristics including month...

The predictability of Cyclone Sidr in the Bay of Bengal was explored in terms of track and intensity using the Advanced Research Hurricane Weather Research Forecast (AHW) model. This constitutes the first application of the AHW over an area that lies outside the region of the North Atlantic for which this model was developed and tested. Several experiments were conducted to understand the possi...

[1] Patterns of ocean current variability are examined on the West Florida Shelf by a neural network analysis based on the self-organizing map (SOM), using time series of moored velocity data that span the interval October 1998–September 2001. Three characteristic spatial patterns are extracted in a 3 4 SOM array: spatially coherent southeastward and northwestward flow patterns with strong curr...

The most pressing issue for the Ku-band scatterometer is associated with the measurement of ocean surface winds in tropical cyclones in the presence of precipitation, which can significantly degrade the wind vector retrieval. Furthermore, at high wind speeds (> 32 m/s), the measurements suffer from radar backscatter saturation effects. Since the spatial resolution of satellite scatterometer and...