Ozone and UV bulletin
The stratosphere ozone layer is slowly recovering and the recovery will be complete in most parts of the atmosphere in the coming decades, according to the latest bulletin by the World Meteorological Organization
Solar Radiation
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Genome-wide excision repair in Arabidopsis is coupled to transcription and reflects circadian gene expression patterns
<p>Plants are exposed to numerous DNA-damaging stresses including the exposure to ultraviolet (UV) component of solar radiation. They employ nucleotide excision repair to remove DNA-bulky adducts and to
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Lighting implications of urban mitigation strategies through cool pavements: Energy savings and visual comfort
<p>Cool materials with higher solar reflectance compared with conventional materials of the same color are widely used to maintain cooler urban fabrics when exposed to solar irradiation and to mitigate
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Effect of unusual dust event on meteorological parameters & aerosol optical and radiative properties
<p>A very unusual dust plume generated from dust-storm activities over the Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia affected the north-west region of India between March 20 and 23, 2012, causing significant
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Assessment and mitigation strategies to counteract overheating in urban historical areas in Rome
<p>As urban overheating is increasing, there is a strong public interest towards mitigation strategies to enhance comfortable urban spaces, for their role in supporting urban metabolism and social life.
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Ozone at lower latitudes is not recovering, despite Antarctic ozone hole healing
The ozone layer - which protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation - is recovering at the poles, but unexpected decreases in part of the atmosphere may be preventing recovery at lower latitudes.
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Diurnal cloud cycle biases in climate models
<p>Clouds’ efficiency at reflecting solar radiation and trapping the terrestrial radiation is strongly modulated by the diurnal cycle of clouds (DCC). Much attention has been paid to mean cloud properties
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Greater future global warming inferred from Earth’s recent energy budget
Models show that several aspects of Earth’s top-of-atmosphere energy budget and the magnitude of projected global warming are correlated, enabling us to infer that future warming has been underestimated.
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A study of the Oklahoma city urban heat island effect using a WRF/single-layer urban canopy model, a joint urban 2003 field campaign, and MODIS satellite observations
<p>The urban heat island effect (UHI) for inner land regions was investigated using satellite data, ground observations, and simulations with an Single-Layer Urban Canopy Parameterization (SLUCP) coupled
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Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years
<p>The evolution of Earth’s climate on geological timescales is largely driven by variations in the magnitude of total solar irradiance (TSI) and changes in the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere.
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Variability and trends in low cloud cover over India during 1961-2010
<p>Annual and seasonal variability and trends in low cloud cover over India were analyzed for the period 1961-2010. Taking all period into account, there is a general decrease in mean low cloud cover over