Almost all climate models in Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project phase five (CMIP5) were found to have a cold bias in Sea Surface Temperature (SST) over the northern Arabian Sea, which is linked to the biases in the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM). This cold SST bias was attributed to the anomalous cold winds from the north-western part of south Asian landmass during boreal winter. However, the ...

During the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME), an unprecedented surface dataset was collected over the core monsoon region. Observations from 157 surface sites in this region along with twice-daily Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) oceanic winds were quality controlled and processed into a gridded dataset covering the domain (15°–40°N, 90°–120°W) at 1-h, 0.25° resolution for the period from ...

Irrigation has excellent potential for altering surface characteristics and the local climate. Although studies using site observations or remote sensing data have demonstrated an irrigation cooling effect (ICE) on air temperature (Tem) land (LST), it is difficult to eliminate other stress factors due different backgrounds. We characterized as differences (Δ) of LST DCT (DCT = − Tem) between ir...

Observations of extreme, “freak” or “rogue waves” have typically depended on chance observations from ships at sea or from fixed oil or gas platforms. The observations have been so sparse that there are very few direct temporal or spatial measurements, and those that do exist are so infrequent that they have often been individually named: e.g. the “Draupner Wave.” Such named observations tend t...

Abstract Accounting for 41.7% of China’s total land area, grasslands are linked to the livelihoods over 20 million people. Although grassland fires cause severe damage in China every year, their spatiotemporal patterns and climate drivers not well understood. In this study, we used fire record forms provided by National Forestry Grassland Administration location data from Wildfire Atlas examine...

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are long, narrow, and transient corridors of enhanced water vapour content in the lower troposphere, associated with strong low-level winds. These features play a key role global cycle drive weather extremes many parts world. Here, we assessed frequency general characteristics landfalling ARs over Morocco for period 1979–2020. We used ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis data to detec...

A modeling study was conducted on dispersion and dry deposition of ammonia taking one hog farm as a unit. The ammonia emissions used in this study were measured under our OPEN (Odor, Pathogens, and Emissions of Nitrogen) project over a waste lagoon and from hog barns. Meteorological data were also collected at the farm site. The actual layout of barns and lagoons on the farms was used to simula...

Introduction: Although several coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) studies have focused on the biomedical and epidemiological manifestations of the COVID-19 virus, there is a dearth of studies that have reported the experiences of COVID-19 survivors. This study investigated the physiological and psychological experiences of COVID-19 survivors and the quality of care that they rec...