As alternative fuels are becoming more common, technologies need to adjust to them. Natural gas is one of the alternative fuels that has grown during the latest years in the transport sector. Natural gas consists of around 97 % methane and is the cleanest fossil fuel. The use of natural gas can make it easier to transition to biogas as it has equiv...
Glass structure is often dismissed from usage due to cost and the fear of breaking. However glass is a material that more then any other is capable of unique aesthetic values. One big aesthetic value for glass is adding liquids to it. This liquid in the glass can then also be used as a heating system. Combining structure and climate design. In this...
Published in Journal of Meteorological Research
In the present study, the LASG/IAP Climate system Ocean Model version 2 (LICOM2) was implemented to replace the original ocean component in the Community Earth System Model version 1.0.4 (CESM1) to form a new coupled model referred to as CESM1+LICOM2. The simulation results from a 300-yr preindustrial experiment by using this model were evaluated a...
Published in Chinese Geographical Science
Using the low-resolution (T31, equivalent to 3.75° × 3.75°) version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a global climate simulation was carried out with fixed external forcing factors (1850 Common Era. (C.E.) conditions) for the past 2000 years. Based on the simulated results, spatio-...
Published in Journal of Meteorological Research
The cryosphere is a prominent factor in and an indicator of global climate change. It serves one of the most direct and sensitive feedbacks in the climate system, and plays an important role in the earth’s climate system. Cryospheric research has attracted unprecedented attention in the context of global warming, and is now one of the most active a...
By combining observations and numerical simulations, we investigated the responses of the surface energy budget and the convective boundary layer (CBL) dynamics to the presence of aerosols. A detailed data set containing (thermo)dynamic observations at CESAR (Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmospheric Research) and aerosol information from the Europe...
Published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
Recent advances in the study of the characteristics, processes, and causes of spatio-temporal variabilities of the East Asian monsoon (EAM) system are reviewed in this paper. The understanding of the EAM system has improved in many aspects: the basic characteristics of horizontal and vertical structures, the annual cycle of the East Asian summer mo...
Published in Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
The record high temperatures during the summer of 2010 in the central part of the European territory of Russia (ETR) raised great interest in the question of whether these temperatures are the maximum possible ones and whether these maxima can be estimated from energy-balance considerations. The gigantic anticyclone was long lasting and stable, all...
Published in Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Radiative forcing, the global warming potential, and the recently proposed global temperature potential are widely used not only in scientific studies but also in a number of economic and political evaluations of the effects of an increase in the contents of greenhouse gases and aerosols and other factors that form climate and its changes. New indi...
Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced. However, in the twenty-first century, we face scarcity in critical resources, the degradation of ecosystem services, and the erosion of the planet's capability to absorb our wastes. Equity issues remain stubbornly difficult to solve. This situation is novel in its speed...
