Heatwaves induce blood pressure elevations in elderly hypertensive populations: Evidence from a panel study
July 2026
Climate change has intensified extreme heat events, increasing cardiovascular risk, especially among older individuals with hypertension, due to compromised thermoregulation and vascular function. This...
Compound extreme events and health risks in China: A review
September 2025
Against the backdrop of global warming, China has been facing increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather and climate events, with a prominent risk of compound extreme events induced by interactions...
Remote influence of the subtropical westerlies on the track of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal
September 2026
This study investigates the remote influence of the subtropical westerlies on the tracks of tropical cyclones (TCs) in the Bay of Bengal (BOB) from 1979 to 2019, combining statistical analysis and numerical...
Nowcasting of cloud-to-ground lightning location and frequency based on a deep learning technique
May 2026
Predicting lightning that can cause power grid trips is significant for disaster prevention. This paper integrates cloud-to-ground lightning detection, water vapor and infrared channel as well as channel...
Physical impacts of integrating excess ice into Earth system models on pan‑Arctic permafrost simulations
Available online 20 August 2026
Excess ice refers to ground-ice bodies in permafrost whose volume exceeds the soil pore space, and its melting can cause abrupt permafrost thaw. However, only a few Earth system models (ESMs) currently...
Assessment of global meteorological, hydrological and agricultural drought under future warming based on CMIP6
January 2022
Quantifying the changes and propagation of drought is of great importance for regional eco-environmental safety and water-related disaster management under global warming. In this study, phase 6 of...
Solar forecasting with large vision–language models
Available online 1 June 2026
Effects of K-profile parameterization on nonhydrostatic internal lee waves over a supercritical sill: The role of boundary-layer mixing
Available online 2 July 2026
Using the coupled Marine Environment Research and Forecasting Model and General Ocean Turbulence Model (MERF–GOTM), this study examines how K-profile parameterization (KPP) influences nonhydrostatic...
Surface flux–induced salinity change and its effects on ocean stratification in response to global warming
January 2026
Global warming induced by increased CO2 has caused marked changes in the ocean. Previous estimates of ocean salinity change in response to global warming have considerable ambiguity, largely attributable...
The record-breaking compound heatwave and drought event in 2024 over the Sichuan basin, Southwest China
Available online 2 February 2026
During August to September 2024, the Sichuan Basin in Southwest China experienced a record-breaking compound heatwave and drought event (CHDE)—the most severe since 1980. This event was characterized...
Evaluation of the Pangu model in forecasting rapid intensification of tropical cyclones
September 2026
To validate the Pangu model’s forecasting capability for the rapid intensification (RI) process of tropical cyclones (TCs), forecasts of different RI/non-RI TCs were produced both by the Weather Research...
A rain-gauge fusion framework using Box–Cox transformation and LETKF to improve reanalysis precipitation estimates over China
Available online 22 July 2026
Reanalysis precipitation products provide spatially complete and temporally continuous estimates but remain subject to biases arising from model deficiencies and physical parameterizations. This study...
Subseasonal evolution and mechanisms of quasi-biweekly compound heatwaves over the Yangtze River Basin
Available online 6 July 2026
Compound heatwaves (HWs), characterized by concurrent daytime and nighttime hot extremes, pose greater risks than daytime-only or nighttime-only events, yet their subseasonal variability over China...
State of China’s climate in 2025
Available online 30 July 2026
In 2025, China experienced a pronounced warm–wet climate regime. The national annual mean temperature tied with the 2024 record as the highest observed since 1961, while nationwide annual precipitation...
Key physical processes of the 2024 La Niña suppression from the perspective of air–sea antagonism
Available online 29 June 2026
Many climate models significantly overestimated the likelihood of a 2024 La Niña, revealing a substantial challenge in El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) prediction. This study employs an ENSO ensemble...
Improving hail nowcasting using multi-source data and a WMHDA-enhanced DIFF-Transformer
September 2026
HailPre is a deep learning framework developed for accurate 60-minute hail nowcasting at 10-minute intervals, tailored for regions with complex terrain and imbalanced hail event distributions. It integrates...
Seasonal variability of the Agulhas Front’s position and intensity: Insights from satellite-derived sea surface temperature and chlorophyll-a concentration data
September 2026
Frontal zones function both as thermal boundaries demarcating water masses and as ecological transition zones. This study proposes a “range–gradient” methodology to investigate the seasonal variability...
How well does the ERA5 reanalysis represent the integrated kinetic energy of tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific?
Available online 29 June 2026
Integrated kinetic energy (IKE) has emerged as a valuable metric for quantifying the destructive potential of tropical cyclones by incorporating both intensity and storm size. This study evaluates the...
State of China’s atmospheric environment in 2025
Available online 2 May 2026
The year 2025 experienced appreciable improvements in both PM2.5 and O3 air quality over China but with strong regional differences. Relative to 2022–2024, the national PM2.5 concentration in 2025 was...
Impacts of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on global fire PM2.5 during 2000–2023
May 2025
The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a key driver of global climate variability, profoundly influencing regional fire activities and associated pollutant emissions. This study investigates the...
CMIP6 model performance in simulating three types of positive Indian Ocean Dipole and their future changes
Available online 7 July 2026
This study evaluates the performance of 40 models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) in simulating the diversity of positive Indian Ocean Dipole (pIOD) events and their projected...
3D DBSCAN detection and parameter sensitivity of the 2022 Yangtze river summertime heatwave and drought
July 2023
Spatially and temporally accurate event detection is a precondition for exploring the mechanisms of climate extremes. To achieve this, a classical unsupervised machine learning method, the DBSCAN (Density-Based...
Tibetan Plateau darkening exacerbates summer heatwaves through land–atmosphere feedbacks
September 2026
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has experienced significant surface darkening under global warming, concurrent with an increase in TP heatwave occurrences in recent decades. Using reanalysis data, the authors...
On the interpretability and CO2 sensitivity of machine learning–based stomatal conductance models
September 2026
Stomatal conductance (gs), which quantifies the openness of stomata in leaves, is a critical parameter for modeling transpiration in land surface models. While machine learning (ML) approaches may improve...
Tropical cyclone intensity prediction based on Kolmogorov–Arnold networks with predictor pruning optimization
July 2026
Accurate tropical cyclone (TC) intensity prediction is crucial for disaster mitigation and public safety. However, current TC intensity prediction models are facing significant challenges, including...