An overview of mineral dust modeling over East Asia

S Chen, J Huang, Y Qian, C Zhao, L Kang… - Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
East Asian dust (EAD) exerts considerable impacts on the energy balance and
climate/climate change of the earth system through its influence on solar and terrestrial …

Emerging trends in photodegradation of petrochemical wastes: a review

P Singh, A Ojha, A Borthakur, R Singh, D Lahiry… - … Science and Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
Various human activities like mining and extraction of mineral oils have been used for the
modernization of society and well-beings. However, the by-products such as petrochemical …

Impact of remotely sensed albedo and vegetation fraction on simulation of urban climate in WRF‐urban canopy model: A case study of the urban heat island in Los …

P Vahmani, GA Ban‐Weiss - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Modeling the climate of urban areas is of interest for studying urban heat islands (UHIs).
Reliable assessment of the primary causes of UHIs and the efficacy of various heat …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity study on the influence of cloud microphysical parameters on mixed-phase cloud thermodynamic phase partitioning in CAM5

I Tan, T Storelvmo - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The influence of six CAM5. 1 cloud microphysical parameters on the variance of phase
partitioning in mixed-phase clouds is determined by application of a variance-based …

[HTML][HTML] Aerosol and physical atmosphere model parameters are both important sources of uncertainty in aerosol ERF

L Regayre, J Johnson, M Yoshioka, K Pringle… - 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Changes in aerosols cause a change in net top-of-the-atmosphere (ToA) short-wave and
long-wave radiative fluxes, rapid adjustments in clouds, water vapour and temperature, and …

Simulating black carbon and dust and their radiative forcing in seasonal snow: a case study over North China with field campaign measurements

C Zhao, Z Hu, Y Qian, L Ruby Leung… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - acp.copernicus.org
A state-of-the-art regional model, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model
(Skamarock et al., 2008) coupled with a chemistry component (Chem)(Grell et al., 2005), is …

Parametric sensitivity and uncertainty quantification in the version 1 of E3SM atmosphere model based on short perturbed parameter ensemble simulations

Y Qian, H Wan, B Yang, JC Golaz… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The atmospheric component of Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1 has
included many new features in the physics parameterizations compared to its predecessors …

Parametric sensitivity analysis of precipitation at global and local scales in the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5

Y Qian, H Yan, Z Hou, G Johannesson… - Journal of Advances …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the sensitivity of precipitation characteristics (mean, extreme, and diurnal
cycle) to a set of uncertain parameters that influence the qualitative and quantitative …

Sensitivity of turbine-height wind speeds to parameters in planetary boundary-layer and surface-layer schemes in the weather research and forecasting model

B Yang, Y Qian, LK Berg, PL Ma, S Wharton… - Boundary-layer …, 2017 - Springer
We evaluate the sensitivity of simulated turbine-height wind speeds to 26 parameters within
the Mellor–Yamada–Nakanishi–Niino (MYNN) planetary boundary-layer scheme and MM5 …

Assessing the impacts of seasonal and vertical atmospheric conditions on air quality over the Pearl River Delta region

CHM Tong, SHL Yim, D Rothenberg, C Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
Air pollution is an increasingly concerning problem in many metropolitan areas due to its
adverse public health and environmental impacts. Vertical atmospheric conditions have …