On the role of the troposphere in satellite altimetry

MJ Fernandes, C Lázaro, T Vieira - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Satellite radar altimetry is nowadays a powerful and attractive Earth Observation technique
of major importance in several applications such as the study of mean sea level change (a …

Precipitation from persistent extremes is increasing in most regions and globally

H Du, LV Alexander, MG Donat… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme precipitation often persists for multiple days with variable duration but has usually
been examined at fixed duration. Here we show that considering extreme persistent …

Wet bias of summer precipitation in the northwestern Tibetan Plateau in ERA5 is linked to overestimated lower-level southerly wind over the plateau

T Ou, D Chen, J Tang, C Lin, X Wang, J Kukulies… - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP), also called the Third Pole, is considered to be “the world
water tower”. The northwestern TP (NWTP), which has an average elevation higher than …

The diurnal variation of wet bulb temperatures and exceedance of physiological thresholds relevant to human health in South Asia

J Justine, JM Monteiro, H Shah, N Rao - Communications Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme heat is increasingly being acknowledged as a serious hazard to human health,
through a combination of physiological responses to heat, expressed as dry and wet bulb …

[HTML][HTML] An enhanced integrated water vapour dataset from more than 10 000 global ground-based GPS stations in 2020

P Yuan, G Blewitt, C Kreemer… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
We developed a high-quality global integrated water vapour (IWV) dataset from 12 552
ground-based global positioning system (GPS) stations in 2020. It consists of 5 min GPS …

Wind speed super-resolution and validation: from ERA5 to CERRA via diffusion models

F Merizzi, A Asperti, S Colamonaco - Neural Computing and Applications, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Copernicus Regional Reanalysis for Europe, CERRA, is a high-resolution
regional reanalysis dataset for the European domain. In recent years, it has shown …

[HTML][HTML] 水文气象信息概述: 观测, 融合与再分析

周自江, 曹丽娟, 廖捷, 谷军霞, 张涛, 潘旸 - 气象, 2022 - qxqk.nmc.cn
高质量的水文气象观测数据是开展气象和水文灾害监测, 预报预警及长期气候变化趋势分析的
基本支撑. 以降水等水分循环基本要素为重点, 简要概述部分单源的观测数据集 …

Reanalysis-driven simulations may overestimate persistent contrail formation by 100%–250%

A Agarwal, VR Meijer, SD Eastham… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Model-based estimates of aviation's climate impacts have found that contrails
contribute 36%–81% of aviation's instantaneous radiative forcing. These estimates depend …

The atmosphere has become increasingly unstable during 1979–2020 over the Northern Hemisphere

J Chen, A Dai - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric instability affects the formation of convective storms, but how it has changed
during recent decades is unknown. Here we analyze the occurrence frequency of stable and …

Global comparisons of ERA5 and the operational HRES tropospheric delay and water vapor products with GPS and MODIS

C Yu, Z Li, G Blewitt - Earth and Space Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitable water vapor (PWV) from numerical weather models, such as the latest
generation of European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis …