Air Pollution Interactions with Weather and Climate Extremes: Current Knowledge, Gaps, and Future Directions

C He, R Kumar, W Tang, G Pfister, Y Xu, Y Qian… - Current Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review During the past decade, weather and climate extremes,
enhanced by climate change trends, have received tremendous attention because of their …

Intensification of sub-daily rainfall extremes in a low-rise urban area

J Huang, S Fatichi, G Mascaro, G Manoli, N Peleg - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
Short-duration extreme rainfall events are the main trigger of flash and pluvial floods in
cities. Depending on the local climate zone and urban fabric that affect meteorological …

Stratospheric ozone loss enhances summer precipitation over the southern slope of the Tibetan Plateau

Y Xia, Y Hu, Y Huang, J Bian, C Zhao… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heavy summer precipitation over the southern slope of the Tibetan Plateau has dramatic
influences on water resources and hydrological disasters in South Asia. It experienced …

Estimating cloud condensation nuclei concentrations from CALIPSO lidar measurements

G Choudhury, M Tesche - Atmospheric Measurement …, 2022 - amt.copernicus.org
We present a novel methodology to estimate cloud condensation nuclei (CCN)
concentrations from spaceborne CALIPSO (Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder …

Will warming climate affect the characteristics of summer monsoon rainfall and associated extremes over the gangetic plains in India?

M Pant, R Bhatla, S Ghosh, S Das… - Earth and Space …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Indo‐Gangetic Plain (IGP) bears great agricultural importance and contributes
to a major share of national GDP of India. In present study, a location‐specific …

Impact of transported dust aerosols on precipitation over the Nepal Himalayas using convection-permitting WRF-Chem simulation

P Adhikari, JF Mejia - Atmospheric Environment: X, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we implemented a convection-permitting Weather Research and Forecasting
model coupled with chemistry (WRF-Chem) to assess the impact of the long-range …

Assessing the high-resolution PM2.5 measurements over a Central Himalayan site: impact of mountain meteorology and episodic events

V Rawat, N Singh, J Singh, A Rajput, SK Dhaka… - Air Quality, Atmosphere …, 2024 - Springer
The pristine Himalayan region is often influenced by continental and transboundary
intrusions of pollutants over the year. Here, for the first time, systematic high-resolution …

Impacts of aerosol orographic precipitation interaction associated with Western disturbances over India using satellite observations

PK Kemmannu, BR Manjunatha - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Western disturbances (WDs) develop as extra-tropical low-pressure systems over the
Mediterranean and lose their frontal structure as they move eastward toward India. The …

[HTML][HTML] Aerosol–precipitation elevation dependence over the central Himalayas using cloud-resolving WRF-Chem numerical modeling

P Adhikari, JF Mejia - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric aerosols can modulate the orographic precipitation impacting the evolution of
clouds through radiation and microphysical pathways. This study implements the cloud …

Aerosol influence on the pre-monsoon rainfall mechanisms over North-East India: A WRF-Chem study

N Barman, S Gokhale - Atmospheric Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The importance of aerosols and absorbing aerosols in influencing weather is well
recognized. This study is carried out over North-East (NE) India during the pre-monsoon …