[HTML][HTML] An analytical approximation of urban heat and dry islands and their impact on convection triggering

CTF Chiu, K Wang, A Paschalis, T Erfani, N Peleg… - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
It is well known that cities increase air and surface temperatures compared to their rural
surroundings, the so-called urban heat island (UHI) effect. However, the associated changes …

Aerosol effects on liquid cloud microphysical properties in south China: Land–ocean contrasts

Y Wang, P Zhao, H Xiao, P Zhang - Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The aerosol effects on liquid cloud microphysical properties over South China and adjacent
ocean regions are investigated by using aerosol reanalysis data from MERRA-2, cloud …

Spatio-temporal variations in satellite based aerosol optical depths & aerosol index over Indian subcontinent: Impact of urbanization and climate change

A Kumar - Urban Climate, 2020 - Elsevier
All season multiyear characterization of the aerosol optical depths (AOD) & absorbing
aerosol index (AI) was carried out over Indian subcontinent using simultaneous data from …

Regional trends of aerosol optical depth and their impact on cloud properties over Southern India using MODIS data

KR Gopal, KRO Reddy, G Balakrishnaiah… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2016 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of global aerosols has constituted a great scientific interest in a variety of
applications related to global warming and climatic change. In the present study we …

Variability of aerosol optical depth and cloud parameters over North Eastern regions of India retrieved from MODIS satellite data

A Kumar - Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
In the present study, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data
retrieved from Terra satellite has been used to investigate the spatial and temporal …

Long term (2003–2012) spatio-temporal MODIS (Terra/Aqua level 3) derived climatic variations of aerosol optical depth and cloud properties over a semi arid urban …

A Kumar - Atmospheric Environment, 2014 - Elsevier
Aerosol optical depth (AOD) values at 550 nm derived from the Moderate Resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, for …

A 13-year climatological study on the variations of aerosol and cloud properties over Kazakhstan from remotely sensed satellite observations

KR Kumar, R Boiyo, A Madina, N Kang - Journal of Atmospheric and Solar …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Republic of Kazakhstan, by geographical and climatological conditions, is a
key location for the characterization of atmospheric aerosols due to an unprecedented …

Relationship between aerosol and cloud characteristics over Delhi in North India during the dry and wet season

PK Verma, AK Srivastava, SP Shukla… - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The study investigates the spatio-temporal variations of aerosol and cloud properties
retrieved from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite at an …

On the sub-micron aerosol size distribution in a coastal-rural site at El Arenosillo Station (SW–Spain)

M Sorribas, BA De la Morena, B Wehner… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
This study focuses on the analysis of the sub-micron aerosol characteristics at El Arenosillo
Station, a rural and coastal environment in South-western Spain between 1 August 2004 …

TAMU TRACER: Targeted Mobile Measurements to Isolate the Impacts of Aerosols and Meteorology on Deep Convection

AD Rapp, SD Brooks, CJ Nowotarski… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Difficulty in using observations to isolate the impacts of aerosols from meteorology on deep
convection often stems from the inability to resolve the spatiotemporal variations in the …