Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciencesdiscovered a new perspective of the tropical cyclone size-intensity relationship. Their findings, published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, highlights the physical mechanisms underlying coordinated changes within TCs.

Researchers now have the ability to analyze the characteristics of icing seeding tracks within the stratiform region and cloud seeding mechanisms in the convective region. This wealth of data gives important clues that help determine the differences in the cloud’s macro- and micro-physical properties.

Researchers led by Dr. ZHAO Liang from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and Prof. HUANG Cunrui from Tsinghua University investigated the spatial and temporal variation of heatwaves-related human deaths in China from 1979 to 2020.

Extreme heatwaves are likely to increase in frequency and severity, researchers report in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, largely due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. The finding comes the day after the United Kingdom records its hottest ever temperature and a year after an unprecedented North American heatwave doubled average temperatures and resulted in nearly 1,500 deaths.

The report analyzed the interannual variations in major meteorological variables during the year 2021, with a focus on the climate anomalies and high-impact extremes that occurred in the Three Gorges region (TGR)

A research team, including researchers from City University of Hong Kong and Imperial College London, has extended the atmosphere-only model to include ocean and wave models to create an air-sea-wave fully-coupled model. This improved model system allows the researchers to better predict tropical cyclone intensity changes near coastal regions.

A well simulation of heatwave frequency variation by a machine-learning model

Researchers from China, the USA and the Netherlands use observational and modelling data to better understand the Third Pole of the world.

A 3D comprehensive observation network has been successfully established over different regions covering all kinds of landscapes, including bare soil, alpine steppe, grassland, forest, desert, glaciers, lakes, and so on. And, in addition to traditional automatic weather stations, devices such as eddy covariance systems, large aperture scintillometers, planetary boundary layer towers, wind profilers, microwave radiometers, radiosonde systems, and cloud/precipitation radars have been installed or will be constructed

If society takes aggressive climate action, global warming at the surface could stabilize at 1.5-2℃ above pre-industrial temperatures, but due to ocean thermal inertia, the deep sea will continue warming for many years, and sea level continues to rise. A group of climate scientists and engineers has warned that this means we need adaptation plans that match that extremely long-term scale.