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The study used a 5 km-resolution regional climate model, the Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting Model, to quantify the potential impact of sea surface temperature (SST) west of the Philippines ...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:23
Published on: 15 August 2017
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Instrumental and proxy records indicate remarkable global climate variability over the last millennium, influenced by solar irradiance, Earth’s orbital parameters, volcanic eruptions and human activities. Nume...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:22
Published on: 4 August 2017
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The Shigaraki unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-Radar Experiment (ShUREX) is an international (USA-Japan-France) observational campaign, whose overarching goal is to demonstrate the utility of small, lightweight, ...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:19
Published on: 17 July 2017
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This article reviews the major outcomes of a 5-year (2011–2016) project using the K computer to perform global numerical atmospheric simulations based on the non-hydrostatic icosahedral atmospheric model (NICA...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:13
Published on: 28 April 2017
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For mid-latitude Rossby waves (RWs) in the atmosphere, the expression for the energy flux for use in a model diagnosis, and without relying on a Fourier analysis or a ray theory, has previously been derived us...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:11
Published on: 31 March 2017
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The coastal areas of the Sea of Japan are a well-known hotspot of winter lightning activity. This study distinguishes between three common types of winter lightning in that region (types A–C), based on their f...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:7
Published on: 27 March 2017
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In this study, a new method is proposed for the depiction of the atmospheric transportation of the 137Cs emitted from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident. This method employs a combination of the...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2017 4:2
Published on: 23 January 2017
Review
Located far from anthropogenic emission sources, high-altitude mountain stations are considered to be ideal sites for monitoring climatic and environmentally important baseline changes in free tropospheric tra...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2016 3:34
Published on: 26 October 2016
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Satellite remote sensing of the macroscopic, microphysical, and optical properties of clouds are useful for studying spatial and temporal variations of clouds at various scales and constraining cloud physical ...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2016 3:32
Published on: 21 October 2016
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The correct understanding of the transient response to external radiative perturbation is important for the interpretation of observed climate change, the prediction of near-future climate change, and committe...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2016 3:21
Published on: 18 July 2016
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The success of sub-kilometer global atmospheric simulation opens the door for resolving deep convections, which are fundamental elements of cloudy disturbances that drive global circulation. A previous study f...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2016 3:16
Published on: 6 June 2016
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The Lucas-Washburn equation is a fundamental expression used to describe capillary rise in geologic media on the basis of pore radius, liquid viscosity, surface tension, contact angle, and time. It is known th...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2016 3:8
Published on: 28 April 2016
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Of all terrestrial media (including vegetation and the atmosphere), soil is the largest store of carbon. Soils also have important functions such as water storage and plant support roles. However, at present, ...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2014 1:30
Published on: 18 December 2014
Review
Changes in the natural environment that are the result of human activities are becoming evident. Since these changes are interrelated and can not be investigated without interdisciplinary collaboration between...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2014 1:29
Published on: 18 December 2014
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This study investigated the role of snowmelt runoff on water circulation, water mass formation, and the production of cultured scallop larvae, as a part of a land-sea linkage, by analyzing hydrological data in...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2014 1:25
Published on: 13 December 2014
Review
This article reviews the development of a global non-hydrostatic model, focusing on the pioneering research of the Non-hydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM). Very high resolution global atmospheric...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2014 1:18
Published on: 14 October 2014
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The tropopause inversion layer (TIL) is a persistent layer with high static stability. Although some mechanisms for the formation of the TIL have been proposed, the time evolution of the TIL under realistic co...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2014 1:19
Published on: 30 September 2014
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A campaign was conducted from 23 July to 5 August 2010 to measure atmospheric precipitable water vapor (PWV) using five Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, stationed at four different locations in Jakar...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2014 1:17
Published on: 29 August 2014
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Understanding oceanic responses to typhoons and the impacts those responses have on the typhoons themselves is important so that typhoon predictions performed using numerical models and typhoon forecasts can b...
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2014 1:11
Published on: 10 June 2014
