Geoinformatics And Atmospheric Science (pageoph Topical Volumes)

This volume presents recent developments in atmospheric sciences driven by numerical modeling which makes use of geospatial technologies and increasing computational power. It gathers examples of how geoinformatics supports meteorological, climatological and water-related studies. One of the most important features of geospatial technologies is that they provide methods and tools which may be utilized in real time or near real time in order to monitor and predict atmospheric processes. This is particularly crucial in areas where dynamics of atmospheric phenomena is considerable and causes difficulties in accurate forecasting. One of such areas is the transitional zone between oceanic and continental features of the mid-latitude climate. Good examples of investigations into the transitional zone come from Poland and its neighboring countries. The topical volume provides the reader with a selection of papers on physically-based and data-based modelling of weather-related phenomena over Poland. This main theme of the topical volume is extended to cover case studies on the use of geoinformatics in atmospheric studies in other regions at a range of spatial scales. Front Matter ....Pages I-X Biweekly Sea Surface Temperature over the South China Sea and its association with the Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon (B. H. Vaid)....Pages 5-17 North Equatorial Indian Ocean Convection and Indian Summer Monsoon June Progression: a Case Study of 2013 and 2014 (Ramesh Kumar Yadav, Bhupendra Bahadur Singh)....Pages 19-31 Sensitivity Study of Cloud Cover and Ozone Modeling to Microphysics Parameterization (Kinga Wałaszek, Maciej Kryza, Mariusz Szymanowski, Małgorzata Werner, Hanna Ojrzyńska)....Pages 33-52 High-Resolution Dynamical Downscaling of ERA-Interim Using the WRF Regional Climate Model for the Area of Poland. Part 1: Model Configuration and Statistical Evaluation for the 1981–2010 Period (Maciej Kryza, Kinga Wałaszek, Hanna Ojrzyńska, Mariusz Szymanowski, Małgorzata Werner, Anthony J. Dore)....Pages 53-68 High-Resolution Dynamical Downscaling of ERA-Interim Using the WRF Regional Climate Model for the Area of Poland. Part 2: Model Performance with Respect to Automatically Derived Circulation Types (Hanna Ojrzyńska, Maciej Kryza, Kinga Wałaszek, Mariusz Szymanowski, Małgorzata Werner, Anthony J. Dore)....Pages 69-92 Aerosol-Radiation Feedback and PM10 Air Concentrations Over Poland (Małgorzata Werner, Maciej Kryza, Carsten Ambelas Skjøth, Kinga Wałaszek, Anthony J. Dore, Hanna Ojrzyńska et al.)....Pages 93-110 The Relevance of Surface Roughness Data Qualities in Diagnostic Modeling of Wind Velocity in Complex Terrain: A Case Study from the Śnieżnik Massif (SW Poland) (Kacper Jancewicz, Mariusz Szymanowski)....Pages 111-136 The Role of Auxiliary Variables in Deterministic and Deterministic-Stochastic Spatial Models of Air Temperature in Poland (Mariusz Szymanowski, Maciej Kryza)....Pages 137-163 Spatial Interpolation of Ewert’s Index of Continentality in Poland (Mariusz Szymanowski, Piotr Bednarczyk, Maciej Kryza, Marek Nowosad)....Pages 165-184 Geospatial Predictive Modelling for Climate Mapping of Selected Severe Weather Phenomena Over Poland: A Methodological Approach (Ewelina Walawender, Jakub P. Walawender, Zbigniew Ustrnul)....Pages 185-201 Geocomputation and Spatial Modelling for Geographical Drought Risk Assessment: A Case Study of the Hustopeče Area, Czech Republic (Aleš Ruda, Jaromír Kolejka, Kateřina Batelková)....Pages 203-220 The Use of Geospatial Technologies in Flood Hazard Mapping and Assessment: Case Study from River Evros (Angeliki Mentzafou, Vasiliki Markogianni, Elias Dimitriou)....Pages 221-242 Regional L-Moment-Based Flood Frequency Analysis in the Upper Vistula River Basin, Poland (A. Rutkowska, M. Żelazny, S. Kohnová, M. Łyp, K. Banasik)....Pages 243-263 GNSS Vertical Coordinate Time Series Analysis Using Single-Channel Independent Component Analysis Method (Wei Peng, Wujiao Dai, Rock Santerre, Changsheng Cai, Cuilin Kuang)....Pages 265-278