Abstract Four meteorological components (geopotential height Z , air temperature T dew point Td, and relative humidity RH) collected from ERA-5 ERA-Interim were compared with the observations of nine radiosonde stations different climatic changes, at isobaric levels (850, 700, 500, 200 hPa) during period 2000–2017, in order to assess accuracy aforementioned reanalysis datasets. The results show...

introduction occurrence of heavy and rainstorm events is among the characteristics of arid and semi-arid regions all over the world and particularly in iran which is causing large floods and debris town. how ever, they can be used to supply and store water by controlling and exploiting the run off water floods. indexes of atmospheric instability are very useful scientific instruments to underst...

the aim of this research is investigating the relations between climatic large scale signals and spring rainfall of khorasan-e razavi province. in this research, we have analyzed 38 years of rainfall data in khorasan-e razavi province, located in northeastern iran. we attempted to train artificial neural network based upon climatic large scale signals with 38 years of rainfall data. for perform...

Satellite-borne measurements provide valuable information on the global distribution of upper tropospheric humidity (UTH), which represents the mean relative humidity in a layer approximately enclosed by the atmospheric pressure levels 500 and 200 hPa. Monthly mean distributions of microwave observations of UTH obtained from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (AMSU-B) and the Humidity Sound...

ENSO (El Niño–Southern Oscillation) has a large influence on tropical cyclone activity. The authors examine how different environmental factors contribute to this influence, using a genesis potential index developed by Emanuel and Nolan. Four factors contribute to the genesis potential index: low-level vorticity (850 hPa), relative humidity at 600 hPa, the magnitude of vertical wind shear from ...

introduction water vapor is an essential climate element. through latent heat exchanges, the water vapor is considered as the principal way of energy transport through the global atmosphere and it is also a dominant greenhouse gas (held and soden, 2000). over the oceans, warmer surface temperatures may lead to increased evaporation and, therefore, greater specific humidity, but an approximately...

Odin-SMR is a limb-sounder operating in the 500 GHz region with the capability of performing measurements down to altitudes of about 10 km with relatively low influence of ice clouds. Until now spectra from tropospheric tangent altitudes have been disregarded due to inadequate handling of scattering. A first method to extract upper tropospheric quantities has now been developed, yielding the hu...