WMO air quality and climate bulletin 2022
The WMO Air Quality and Climate Bulletin reports annually on the state of air quality and its connections to climate change, reflecting on the geographical distribution of and changes in the levels of
Atmosphere
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Decline in Antarctic ozone depletion and lower stratospheric chlorine determined from aura microwave limb sounder observations
<p>Attribution of Antarctic ozone recovery to the Montreal protocol requires evidence that (1) Antarctic chlorine levels are declining and (2) there is a reduction in ozone depletion in response to a chlorine
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Why the number of haze days in Shenzhen, China has reduced since 2005: From a perspective of industrial structure
<p>The impacts of the industrial structure on the atmospheric environment in Shenzhen are analyzed by utilizing climate, environmental and economic data over the past 35 years of Shenzhen, a rapid developing
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Unprecedented rainfall in Punjab in August, 2011: A case study
<p>Summer monsoon season 2011 was highlighted with unprecedented rainfall in some districts of Punjab in the second week of August 2011 causing significant damage to public and private properties. An attempt
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Markov chain modeling of stochastic process defined on daily minimum temperature and its applications in weather based crop insurance scheme for banana
<p>The paper investigate probability distribution of daily minimum temperature during winter (November to February) based on meteorological data of Jalgaon weather station for the period of agriculture
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Developing and diagnosing climate change indicators of regional aerosol optical properties
<p>Given the importance of aerosol particles to radiative transfer via aerosol-radiation interactions, a methodology for tracking and diagnosing causes of temporal changes in regional-scale aerosol populations
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Dip in CO2 levels 1 million years ago cooled Earth, led to glacier growth: Study
A new study has shown that decreasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere led to a phenomenon of increased global cooling one million years ago. A decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels
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Complex three-dimensional self-assembly in proxies for atmospheric aerosols
<p>Aerosols are significant to the Earth’s climate, with nearly all atmospheric aerosols containing organic compounds that often contain both hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts. However, the nature
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Declining pre-monsoon dust loading over South Asia: Signature of a changing regional climate
<p>Desert dust over the Indian region during pre-monsoon season is known to strengthen monsoon circulation, by modulating rainfall through the elevated heat pump (EHP) mechanism. In this context, an insight
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Haze heats Pluto’s atmosphere yet explains its cold temperature
<p>Pluto’s atmosphere is cold and hazy. Recent observations have shown it to be much colder than predicted theoretically, suggesting an unknown cooling mechanism. Atmospheric gas molecules, particularly
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CO2 levels grew at record pace in 2016: United Nations
The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere grew at record rate in 2016 to a level not seen for millions of years, the United Nations said on Monday. It said this has the potential to fuel