Science Highlights 2021

Here you can find the Science Highlights from previous months:

November

Koren, G. (2021). Constraining photosynthesis with ∆17O in CO2. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2, 744. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00234-z

Dubey, A. K., Kumar, P., Chembolu, V., Dutta, S., Singh, R. P., & Rajawat, A. S. (2021). Flood modeling of a large transboundary river using WRF-Hydro and microwave remote sensing. Journal of Hydrology, 598, 126391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126391

Leal Filho, W., Matandirotya, N.R., Lütz, J.M. et al. (2021). Impacts of climate change to African indigenous communities and examples of adaptation responses. Nat Commun 12, 6224. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26540-0

Rupakheti, D., Rupakheti, M., Yin, X., Hofer, J., Rai, M., Hu, Y., … & Kang, S. (2021). Modifications in aerosol physical, optical and radiative properties during heavy aerosol events over Dushanbe, Central Asia. Geoscience Frontiers, 12(6), 101251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2021.10125

Sad, H. P., Kumar, P., & Panda, S. K. (2021). Doppler weather radar data assimilation at convective-allowing grid spacing for predicting an extreme weather event in Southern India. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 42(10), 3681-3707. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2021.1880660

Shaaban, A.A., Roundy, P.E. (2021). Upward and downward atmospheric Kelvin waves over the Indian Ocean. Q J R Meteorol Soc, 147 (739), 3154– 3179. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4122

October

Guptha, G. C., Swain, S., Al-Ansari, N., Taloor, A. K., & Dayal, D. (2021). Evaluation of an urban drainage system and its resilience using remote sensing and GIS. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 23, 100601. 10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100601

Kumar, P., & Gairola, R. M. (2021). Fostering the Need of L-Band Radiometer for Extreme Oceanic Wind Research. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2021.3105333

KUMAR, P., GAIROLA, R., KUBOTA, T., & KISHTAWAL, C. (2021). Hybrid Assimilation of Satellite Rainfall Product with High Density Gauge Network to Improve Daily Estimation: A Case of Karnataka, India. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II. https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2021-037 

Mohanty, D.D., Mandal, P. (2021). Evidence of heterogeneous and unstable anisotropic settings beneath the Northeast Indian lithosphere from characterization of null splitting measurements. Acta Geophys. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-021-00676-5

Newton. R. Matandirotya (2021). Research trends in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in South Africa: A bibliometric review. Environmental Challenges, Volume 5, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100263

Pal, L., Ojha, C. S. P., & Dimri, A. P. (2021). Characterizing Rainfall Occurrence in India: Natural Variability and Recent Trends. Journal of Hydrology. 126979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126979

Rapolaki, R. S., Blamey, R. C., Hermes, J. C., & Reason, C. J. C. (2021). Moisture sources and transport during an extreme rainfall event over the Limpopo River Basin, southern Africa. Atmospheric Research, 105849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105849

Thandlam, V., Rutgersson, A. & Sahlee, E. (2021). Spatio-temporal variability of atmospheric rivers and associated atmospheric parameters in the Euro-Atlantic region. Theor Appl Climatol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-021-03776-w

September

Anoruo, C.M. (2021). Monsoon-seasonal validation of MODIS aerosol optical depth and characterization using AERONET observation retrieve over Italy. Environmental Research 111985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111985

Langendijk, G. S., Rechid, D., Sieck, K., & Jacob, D. (2021). Added value of convection-permitting simulations for understanding future urban humidity extremes: Case studies for Berlin. Weather and Climate Extremes, 100367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100367 

Newton. R. Matandirotya, Roelof. P. Burger (2021). Spatiotemporal variability of tropospheric NO2 over four megacities in Southern Africa: Implications for transboundary regional air pollution. Environmental Challenges, volume 5,2021,100271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100271

Romshoo, B., Müller, T., Pfeifer, S., Saturno, J., Nowak, A., Ciupek, K., Quincey, P., & Wiedensohler, A. (2021). Optical properties of coated black carbon aggregates: numerical simulations, radiative forcing estimates, and size-resolved parameterization scheme. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(17), 12989–13010. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12989-2021 

Sahoo, S., Swain, S., Goswami, A., Sharma, R., & Pateriya, B. (2021). Assessment of trends and multi-decadal changes in groundwater level in parts of the Malwa region, Punjab, India. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 14, 100644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsd.2021.100644

August

Ananthavel Aravindhavel, Sanjay Kumar Mehta, TV Ramesh Reddy, Saleem Ali, and D. Narayana Rao (2021). Vertical distributions and columnar properties of the aerosols during different seasons over Kattankulathur (12.82 oN, 80.04 oE): A semi-urban tropical coastal station. Atmospheric Environment 256: 118457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118457

Banik, T., Thandlam, V., De, B.K. et al. (2021). Understanding dynamics of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal using lightning data. Meteorol Atmos Phys. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-021-00824-y

Olmo, ME., Bettolli, ML. (2021). Statistical downscaling of daily precipitation over southeastern South America: Assessing the performance in extreme events. International Journal of Climatology, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7303

Rupakheti, D., Kang, S., Rupakheti, M. et al. (2021). Black Carbon in Surface Soil and Its Sources in Three Central Asian Countries. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 80, 558–566. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-021-00832-4

Timmermans, M.-L. & Z. M. Labe (2021). [The Arctic] Sea surface temperature [in “State of the Climate in 2020”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 102(8), S277-S279. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0086.1

July

Ananthavel, Aravindhavel, et al. (2021). Micro Pulse Lidar measurements in coincidence with CALIPSO overpasses: Comparison of tropospheric aerosols over Kattankulathur (12.82 oN, 80.04 oE). Atmospheric Pollution Research 12.6 101082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2021.101082

Labe, Z. M., & Barnes, E. A. (2021). Detecting climate signals using explainable AI with single‐forcing large ensembles. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, e2021MS002464. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002464

Keenan, B. et al. (2021). Molecular evidence for human population change associated with climate events in the Maya lowlands. Quaternary Science Reviews 258, 106904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106904

Mindlin, J., Shepherd, T. G., Vera, C., & Osman, M. (2021). Combined effects of global warming and ozone depletion/recovery on Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation and regional precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL092568. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092568

H. Vishnu, G. Deane, M. Chitre, D. Stokes, and O. Glowacki (2020). Vertical line array measurements of the sound radiated by melting glaciers in Hornsund Fjord. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 148, pp. 2483–2483. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.5146881

June

H. Vishnu, G. Deane, M. Chitre, O. Glowacki, D. Stokes, and M. Moskalik (2020). Vertical directionality and spatial coherence of the sound field in glacial bays in Hornsund Fjord. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 148, no. 6, 2020.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0002868

Peings, Y., Labe, Z. M., & Magnusdottir, G. (2021). Are 100 ensemble members enough to capture the remote atmospheric response to + 2° C Arctic sea ice loss? Journal of Climate, 34(10), 3751-3769. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0613.1 

Osman, M., Coelho, C.A.S. & Vera, C.S (2021). Calibration and combination of seasonal precipitation forecasts over South America using Ensemble Regression. Clim Dyn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05845-2

Salauddin Mohammad, Gopa Dutta, P V Rao, MCA Kumar, PV Kumar and Krishna Ette (2021). Seasonal variations of Inertia Gravity Waves over Hyderabad (17.4 °N, 78.5 °E), a tropical station using radiosonde measurements. J. Atmos. Solar Terrs. Phys. (Elsevier), 219 105641.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2021.105641

April

Hyung-Gyu Lim, Jong-Yeon Park, John Dunne, Charles Stock, Sung-Ho Kang, Jong-Seong Kug (2021). Importance of human-induced Nitrogen flux increases in simulated Arctic warming. Journal of Climate, 34 (10). https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0180.1

Olmo, M.E., Bettolli, M.L. (2021). Extreme daily precipitation in southern South America: statistical characterization and circulation types using observational datasets and regional climate models. Clim Dyn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05748-2

Toreti, A., Bassu, S., Perez Blanco, D., Capitanio, F., Ramos Ribeiro, R.R., Molinari, D., Webber, H. (2020). Agriculture. In: Casajus Valles, A., Marin Ferrer, M., Poljanšek, K., Clark, I. (eds.), Science for Disaster Risk Management 2020: acting today, protecting tomorrow. Publications Office of the European Union, p. 256-266, ISBN 978-92-76-18182-8. DOI: 10.2760/571085

Alaa Mhawish, Meytar Sorek-Hamer, Robert Chatfield, Tirthankar Banerjee, Muhammad Bilal, Manish Kumar, Chandan Sarangi, Meredith Franklin, Khang Chau, Michael Garay, Olga Kalashnikova (2021). Aerosol characteristics from earth observation systems: A comprehensive investigation over South Asia (2000–2019). Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 259, 112410, ISSN 0034-4257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112410

March

Anoruo, C.M. (2021). Sub-seasonal aerosol characterization at the Middle East regions of AERONET site. Urban Climate. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.100827

Arshad A, Raza MA, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Wang X, Ahmed M, Habib-ur-Rehman M (2021). Impact of Climate Warming on Cotton Growth and Yields in China and Pakistan: A Regional Perspective. Agriculture. 2021; 11(2):97. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11020097

Kim Gruetzmacher, William B. Karesh, John H. Amuasi, Adnan Arshad, Andrew Farlow, Sabine Gabrysch, Jens Jetzkowitz, Susan Lieberman, Clare Palmer, Andrea S. Winkler, Chris Walzer. 2021. The Berlin principles on one health – Bridging global health and conservation. Science of The Total Environment, volume 764,142919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142919

Lapides, D.A., Leclerc, C.D., Moidu, H., Dralle, D.N. and Hahm, W.J. (2021). Variability of stream extents controlled by flow regime and network hydraulic scaling. Hydrological Processes. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14079

February

Archibald, A. T., Neu, J. L., Elshorbany, Y. F., Cooper, O. R., Young, P. J., Akiyoshi, H., Saxena, P…. & Zeng, G. (2020). Tropospheric Ozone Assessment ReportA critical review of changes in the tropospheric ozone burden and budget from 1850 to 2100. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2020.034

Dongsheng Zhang, Zhanxiang Sun, Liangshan Feng, Wei Bai, Ning Yang, Zhe Zhang, Guijuan Du, Chen Feng, Qian Cai, Qi Wang, Yue Zhang, Ruonan Wang, Adnan Arshad, Xingyu Hao, Min Sun, Zhiqiang Gao, Lizhen Zhang (2020). Maize plant density affects yield, growth and source-sink relationship of crops in maize/peanut intercropping. Field Crops Research, volume 257, 107926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107926

Jamal Nasar, Zeqiang Shao, Adnan Arshad, Qiang Gao, Xue Zhou, Shah Fahad, Shuoran Liu, Chunlin Li, John Banda S.K, Lehlogonolo Evans Kgorutla, Khadim Muhammad Dawar (2020). Maize-alfalfa intercropping induced changes in plant and soil nutrient status under nitrogen application. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, volume 22, issue 6. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13157

Kolluru, S., Gedam, S. S., & Inamdar, A. B. (2021). A neural network approach for deriving absorption coefficients of ocean water constituents from total light absorption and particulate absorption coefficients. Computers & Geosciences, 147, 104678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104678

Majeed, U., Rashid, I., Sattar, A., Allen, S., Stoffel, M., Nüsser, M., & Schmidt, S. (2021). Recession of Gya Glacier and the 2014 glacial lake outburst flood in the Trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, India. Science of The Total Environment, 756, 144008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144008

Singh, V., Konduru, R. T., Srivastava, A. K., Momin, I. M., Kumar, S., Singh, A. K., … & Sinha, A. K. (2021). Predicting the rapid intensification and dynamics of pre-monsoon extremely severe cyclonic storm ‘Fani’ (2019) over the Bay of Bengal in a 12-km global model. Atmospheric Research, 247, 105222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105222

January

Konduru, R. T., G. M. (2020). Effect of offshore troughs on the South India erratic summer monsoon rainfall in June 2017. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2020.101187

Konduru, R. T., Takahashi, H. G. (2020). Effects of convection representation and model resolution on diurnal precipitation cycle over the Indian monsoon region: Toward a convection‐permitting regional climate simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2019JD032150. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD032150

M. Adnan Abid, F. Kucharski, F. Molteni, I-S. Kang, A. M. Tompkins, M. Almazroui (2020). Separating the Indian and Pacific Ocean impacts on the Euro-Atlantic response to ENSO and its transition from early to late winter. Journal of Climate. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0075.1

N. Mejjad, A. Laissaoui A. Fekri, A. Benmhammed, O. El Hammoumi, E. Cherif (2020). Does human activities growth lead to biodiversity loss in the Moroccan coastal lagoons? A diagnostic comparison study. In Proceedings of ACM GEOIT4W-2020, March 11–12, 2020, Al-Hoceima, Morocco, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3399205.3399231

S.E. Sbai, N. Mejjad, A. Norelyaqine, F. Bentayeb. (2020). Air quality change during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown over the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France. (Accepted) Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health. https://DOI: 10.1007/s11869-020-00965-w