Ensemble precipitation estimates based on an assessment of 21 gridded precipitation datasets to improve precipitation estimations across Madagascar by Camille C. Ollivier, Simon D. Carrière, Thomas Heath, Albert Olioso, Zo Rabefitia, Heritiana Rakoto, Ludovic Oudin, Frédéric Satgé

“…This island is characterized by a great diversity of climate, due to trade winds and the varying topography. This country is also undergoing extreme rainfall events such as droughts and cyclones. …”
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Survey on Odorous Mineral Gases in the Air Around the Wastewater Treatment Plant: A Case Study in a Stabilization Pond by Ali Arezoumand, Hamzeh Ali Jamali, Hamid Karyab, Reza Ghanbari, Saeed Omidi

“…Sampling stations were selected from 4 cardinal directions with regard to permanent trade winds and on distances of 0, 2 and 4 km from the plant. …”
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Comparisons of the tropospheric specific humidity from GPS radio occultations with ERA-Interim, NASA MERRA, and AIRS data by P. Vergados, A. J. Mannucci, C. O. Ao, O. Verkhoglyadova, B. Iijima

“…It includes three major climate zones: (a) the deep tropics (±15°), (b) the trade winds belts (±15–30°), and (c) the subtropics (±30–40°). …”
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Natural atmospheric deposition of molybdenum: a global model and implications for tropical forests by Wong, Michelle Y, Mahowald, Natalie M, Marino, Roxanne, Williams, Earle R, Chellam, Shankar, Howarth, Robert W

“…Our model predicts higher Mo deposition to terrestrial ecosystems along coasts downstream in trade winds, near active volcanoes, and in areas that receive dust deposition from North Africa, such as the northern Amazon Basin, the Caribbean, and Central America. …”
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Polar phasing and cross‐equatorial heat transfer following a simulated abrupt NH warming of a glacial climate by Moreno-Chamarro, E, Ferreira, D, Marshall, J

“…The Hadley circulation shifts northward in response, weakening the NH trade winds, subtropical cells, and COHT in both ocean basins. …”
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The atmospheric response over the North Atlantic to decadal changes in sea surface temperature by Venzke, S, Allen, M, Sutton, RT, Rowell, D

“…Notwithstanding this conclusion, the authors' results suggest that predictions of SST evolution could be exploited to predict some aspects of atmospheric variability over the North Atlantic, including fluctuations in spring of the subtropical trade winds and the higher latitude westerlies.…”

Conservation Value Of A Living Heritage Site On Penang Island, Malaysia by Lilian, Chan Mei Li

“…George Town is the capital of Penang Island, a town of rich and diverse history which reflect the cultures brought by the trade-winds since the 18th century. Many of the heritage buildings and the businesses or activities, that took place within them still survive until today, many of which involve skills passed down through the generations, making George Town a town with a ‘living’ heritage. …”
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Analyzing Atmospheric Circulation Patterns Using Mass Fluxes Calculated from Weather Balloon Measurements: North Atlantic Region as a Case Study by Michael Connolly, Ronan Connolly, Willie Soon, Víctor M. Velasco Herrera, Rodolfo Gustavo Cionco, Nancy E. Quaranta

“…However, the region is marked by very strong prevailing westerly (west to east) mass fluxes for most of the atmosphere except for the equatorial surface easterlies (“trade winds”). We suggest that the extension of the techniques of this case study to other stations and time periods could improve our understanding of atmospheric circulation patterns and their time variations.…”
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Polar phasing and cross‐equatorial heat transfer following a simulated abrupt NH warming of a glacial climate by Moreno Chamarro, Eduardo, Ferreira, D, Marshall, John

“…The Hadley circulation shifts northward in response, weakening the NH trade winds, subtropical cells, and COHT in both ocean basins. …”
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Wind speed as a dominant source of periodicities in reported emission rates of volcanic SO₂ by Barrington, Charlotte, Taisne, Benoit, Costa, Fidel, Arellano, Santiago

“…Periodicities at about 30–70, ∼120, and ∼180 days were identified at volcanoes located between 16°N and 16°S and are related to intraseasonality and interseasonality in global trade winds and not volcanic in origin. Periodicities between 30 and 70 days in both plume speed and SO2 emission rates are associated to the Madden-Julian Oscillation that is responsible for intraseasonal variability in the tropical atmosphere. …”
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The demographic history and adaptation of Canarian goat breeds to environmental conditions through the use of genome-wide SNP data by Gabriele Senczuk, Martina Macrì, Marika Di Civita, Salvatore Mastrangelo, Maria del Rosario Fresno, Juan Capote, Fabio Pilla, Juan Vicente Delgado, Marcel Amills, Amparo Martínez

“…Nowadays, three Canarian breeds (Palmera, Majorera and Tinerfeña) are officially recognized, along with two distinct South and North Tinerfeña ecotypes, with the South Tinerfeña and Majorera goats thriving in arid and dry semi-desertic environments and the Palmera and North Tinerfeña goats are adapted to humid and temperate areas that are influenced by trade winds. Genotypes for 224 Canarian goats were generated using the Illumina Goat single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)50 BeadChip. …”
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Investigation on Global Distribution of the Atmospheric Trapping Layer by Using Radio Occultation Dataset by Yong Zhou, Yi Liu, Jiandong Qiao, Mingjie Lv, Zhitao Du, Zhiqiang Fan, Jiaqi Zhao, Zhibin Yu, Jiang Li, Zhengyu Zhao, Fang He, Chen Zhou

“…These results reveal that the generation of the trapping layer is the result of the interaction of various background environmental factors such as radiation band migration, trade winds, monsoons, solar radiation heating, sea–land breezes and so on.…”
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Stranding of Mesopelagic Fishes in the Canary Islands by Airam N. Sarmiento-Lezcano, María Couret, Antoni Lombarte, María Pilar Olivar, José María Landeira, Santiago Hernández-León, Víctor M. Tuset

“…Our study hypothesized that (1) the influence of the Canary Current, (2) the dominant incidence of the Trade Winds during summer, and (3) the presence of an upwelling filament coupled with an anticyclonic eddy south of Gran Canaria Island were the causative mechanisms of the strandings. …”
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Climatology of super‐refraction and trapping layers conditions over Central and West Africa by Samuel Kaissassou, L. Djiotang, A. Komkoua, B. Ekobo, B. Ndzana, R. Tanessong, M. Guenang, A. Vondou

“…First, the main climatological features are summarized for the whole CWA: Sahara and inlands seldom experience super‐refraction, whereas coastal areas are strongly affected, especially in regions where the temperature inversion and the trade winds are intense lying near the surface. Over land, seasonal averages of super‐refraction frequencies reach 80% (40%) over moist areas year‐round but remain below 40% (15%) in most other regions. …”
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Increased Amazon Basin wet-season precipitation and river discharge since the early 1990s driven by tropical Pacific variability by Andrew R Friedman, Massimo A Bollasina, Guillaume Gastineau, Myriam Khodri

“…Some studies have linked the increased Amazon Basin hydrologic cycle to decadal trends of increased Pacific trade winds, eastern Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) cooling, and associated strengthening of the Pacific Walker circulation. …”
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Climatic Effects of Spring Mesoscale Oceanic Eddies in the North Pacific: A Regional Modeling Study by Zhiying Cai, Haiming Xu, Jing Ma, Jiechun Deng

“…Additionally, the northern NPac OEs can shrink the lower-level subtropical high and weaken the easterly trade winds at the low latitudes, while the southern NPac OEs result in a southward shift of the lower-level subtropical high and an eastward shift of the upper-level westerly jet stream. …”
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Cloud Radar Observations of Diurnal and Seasonal Cloudiness over Reunion Island by Jonathan Durand, Edouard Lees, Olivier Bousquet, Julien Delanoë, François Bonnardot

“…During the dry season (June–September), this bimodal vertical mode is no longer observed and the vertical cloud extension is essentially limited to a height of 3 km due to both the drop-in humidity resulting from the northward migration of the ITCZ and the capping effect of the trade winds inversion. The frequency of cloud occurrence is at its maximum between 13:00–18:00 LST, with a probability of 35% at 15 LST near an altitude of 2 km. …”
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Mapping Environmental Impacts on Coastal Tourist Areas of Oceanic Islands (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands): A Current and Future Scenarios Assessment by Leví García-Romero, Teresa Carreira-Galbán, José Ángel Rodríguez-Báez, Pablo Máyer-Suárez, Luis Hernández-Calvento, Amalia Yánes-Luque

“…Importantly, coastal tourist resorts and their associated beaches are commonly located in the S-SW of these islands where they are protected from the effects of the NE trade winds but exposed to these storms. This study analyses the current and future conditions of SW sea storm events. …”
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Coupling of the intertropical convergence zone and the Hadley cells to the ocean's circulation by Green, Brian Marcus

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Assessment of thermocline depth bias in the Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge of the Southwestern Indian Ocean simulated by the CMIP6 models by Saat Mubarrok, Saat Mubarrok, Saat Mubarrok, Fuad Azminuddin, Chan Joo Jang, Chan Joo Jang

“…Due to the negative wind stress curl between the equatorial westerlies and southeasterly trade winds, SCTR is known as a strong upwelling region with high biological productivity, providing a primary fishing zone for the surrounding countries. …”
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