Increases in thunderstorm activity and relationships with air pollution in southeast China

Heavy air pollution suppresses summer thunderstorms in central China

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New evidence of orographic precipitation suppression by aerosols in central China

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Microphysical effects determine macrophysical response for aerosol impacts on deep convective clouds

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Improving Geostationary Satellite Rainfall Estimates Using Lightning Observations: Underlying Lightning–Rainfall–Cloud Relationships

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Aerosol-induced intensification of rain from the tropics to the mid-latitudes

(2012) Ilan Koren et al.   Nature Geoscience

Impact of aerosols on convective clouds and precipitation

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Observational evidence of aerosol enhancement of lightning activity and convective invigoration

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Reliability Analysis of Climate Change of Tropical Cyclone Activity over the Western North Pacific

(2011) Fumin Ren et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Seasonal variations of aerosol optical properties, vertical distribution and associated radiative effects in the Yangtze Delta region of China

(2011) Jianjun Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Long-term impacts of aerosols on the vertical development of clouds and precipitation

(2011) Zhanqing Li et al.   Nature Geoscience

Effect of urbanization on lightning over four metropolitan cities of India

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Aerosol optical depth measurements in eastern China and a new calibration method

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Increase of wintertime fog in China: Potential impacts of weakening of the Eastern Asian monsoon circulation and increasing aerosol loading

(2010) Feng Niu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Weekly cycle of lightning: Evidence of storm invigoration by pollution

(2009) Thomas L. Bell et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Clear Sky Visibility Has Decreased over Land Globally from 1973 to 2007

(2009) K. Wang et al.   SCIENCE

Aerosol effects on the enhancement of cloud-to-ground lightning over major urban areas of South Korea

(2008) S.K. Kar et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

Relationship between rainfall and lightning over central Indian region in monsoon and premonsoon seasons

(2008) D.M. Lal et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

“Warm Rain” in the Tropics: Seasonal and Regional Distributions Based on 9 yr of TRMM Data

(2008) Chuntao Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Midweek increase in U.S. summer rain and storm heights suggests air pollution invigorates rainstorms

(2008) Thomas L. Bell et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Smoke Invigoration Versus Inhibition of Clouds over the Amazon

(2008) I. Koren et al.   SCIENCE

Flood or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation?

(2008) D. Rosenfeld et al.   SCIENCE

Long-term trend of visibility and its characterizations in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, China

(2007) Xuejiao Deng et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT