Several studies have claimed to have found significant weekly cycles of meteorological variables appearing over large domains, which can hardly be related to urban effects exclusively. Nevertheless, there is still an ongoing scientific debate whether these large-scale weekly cycles exist
or not, and some other studies fail to reproduce them with statistical significance. In addition to the lack of the positive proof for the existence of these cycles, their possible physical explanations have been controversially discussed during the last years. In this work we review the main results about this topic published during the recent two decades, including a summary of the existence or non-existence of significant
weekly weather cycles across different regions of the world, mainly over the US, Europe and Asia. In addition, some shortcomings of common statistical methods for analyzing weekly cycles are listed. Finally, a brief summary of supposed causes of the weekly cycles, focusing on the
aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions and their impact on meteorological
variables as a result of the weekly cycles of anthropogenic activities, and possible directions for future research, is presented.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:13746 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Sanchez-Lorenzo, Arturo, Laux, Patrick, Hendricks-Franssen, Harrie-Jan, Calbo, Josep, Vogl, Stefanie, Georgoulias, Aristeidis, Quaas, Johannes |
| Contributors | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschüle Zürich, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Universitat de Girona, Universität Augsburg, Democritus University of Thrace, Universität Leipzig |
| Publisher | Copernicus Publication |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Source | Atmospheric chemistry and physics (2012) 12, S. 5755-5771 |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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