The plum rain is a persistent and extensive rainfall phenomenon that frequently occurs in East Asia during summer, primarily affecting regions along the latitudes of the middle and lower reaches of ...

ABSTRACT Radiosonde measurements and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B42 rainfall are used to construct composite anomaly patterns of temperature, relative humidity, and divergence about ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 54, No. 6 (June 2015), pp. 1283-1296 (14 pages) ABSTRACT Global climate and weather models are a key tool for the prediction of future crop ...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is the highest and most extensive highland in the world, and is widely known as "the Roof of the World", "the World Water Tower" and "the Third Pole". The thermal and ...

Wildfires usually worsen air, but their heat sometimes lowers pollution in the East. This happens when fire heat boosts ...

Engineers have developed a new approach, opposite to climate models, to correct inaccuracies using a high-resolution atmospheric model that more precisely resolves clouds and convection and ...

Scientists warn that the Gulf Stream system could shut down after 2100, driving extreme winters, drying summers, and chaotic ...

Earth's tropical regions drive some of the most powerful weather and climate variability globally. Among these, the ...

A guest post from Dr Lizzie Kendon, Manager of the Understanding Regional Climate Change group at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, UK. Among the most impressive and damaging types of weather we ...