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Spatial and temporal variation of raindrop size distribution in Great Britain Open

Shan Jiang, Dawei Han, Rafael Rosolem, Merhala Thurai, Miguel A. Rico‐Ramirez · 2025

Development of a magnetically driven multimodal perception robotic arm for enhanced autonomy in disabled individuals Open

Dawei Han, Yaya Ren, Yutang Wang, Cheng Deng · 2025

Exploring suitable domain size for high-resolution urban rainfall simulation Open

Sichan Du, Lu Zhuo, Elizabeth Kendon, Dawei Han · 2025

High-resolution urban rainfall simulation is useful for understanding the interaction between urbanisation and local weather as well as the impact of climate change over cities and the impact of adaptation measures such as urban greening. …

Size optimization method of the Watt-II six-bar mechanism based on particle swarm optimization Open

Hang Ye, Zhongke Niu, Dawei Han, Xu Su, Wanyi Chen , et al. · 2025

Aiming at the difficult problem of comprehensive scale design of the six-bar mechanism in engineering practice, kinematic and dynamic analysis and modeling of the Watt-II six-bar mechanism were carried out and combined with the particle sw…

How can we improve data integration to enhance urban air temperature estimations? Open

Zitong Wen, Lu Zhuo, Meiling Gao, Dawei Han · 2025

High-resolution urban air temperatures are indispensable for analysing excess mortality during heatwaves. As a crucial method for obtaining high-resolution data, multi-source data integration has been widely used in urban temperature estim…

An Explainable Framework for Optimizing Input-Output Model Configuration in Deep Learning-Based Rainfall Nowcasting Open

Ahmed Abdelhalim, Miguel A. Rico‐Ramirez, Hongbo Bo, Jiao Wang, Zitong Wen , et al. · 2025

An Explainable Framework for Optimizing Input-Output Model Configuration in Deep Learning-Based Rainfall Nowcasting Open

Ahmed Abdelhalim, Miguel A. Rico‐Ramirez, Hongbo Bo, Jiao Wang, Zitong Wen , et al. · 2025

Preface: Advances in pluvial and fluvial flood forecasting and assessment and flood risk management Open

Cristina Prieto, Dhruvesh Patel, Dawei Han, Benjamin Dewals, Michaela Bray , et al. · 2024

Flood is the foremost natural hazard around the world that affects human life and property (directly and indirectly). In the current era, many hydrologic and hydraulic modelling techniques are available for flood risk assessment and manage…

Increased Significance of Global Concurrent Hazards From 1981 to 2020 Open

Yilei Xu, Qiang Dai, Jingxuan Zhu, Yuanzhi Yao, Jun Zhang , et al. · 2024

The spatiotemporal overlap of multiple hazards defines what we call concurrent hazards, which usually cause more severe damage than what an isolated hazard would. Investigations of concurrent hazards at the global scale are limited. Here w…

Tiny rain makers: How aerosols shape extreme rainfall simulation accuracy Open

Ying Liu, Hai Liu, Lu Zhuo, Dawei Han · 2024

Given the rapid spatiotemporal variability of aerosols and their complex impacts on the Earth system, investigating the role of aerosols in modelling extreme weather events, particularly various extreme rainfalls, remains limited. This stu…

Advancing Spatiotemporal Rainfall Nowcasting through Deep Learning Techniques Open

Ahmed Abdelhalim, Miguel A. Rico‐Ramirez, Weiru Liu, Dawei Han · 2024

For weather forecasters and hydrologists, predicting rainfall in the short term – minutes to a few hours – is crucial for a range of applications. While traditional nowcasting methods excel in operational settings, they face li…

A Fresh Start for Flood Estimation in Ungauged Catchments Open

Ross Woods, Yiming Yin, Giulia Evangelista, Pierluigi Claps, Giulia Giani , et al. · 2024

Flood estimation in ungauged basins is important for flood design, and for improving our understanding of the sensitivity of flood magnitude to changes in climate and land cover. Flood estimates in ungauged basins by current methods (e.g. …

Cerium Doping Effect in 3DOM Perovskite-Type La2−xCexCoNiO6 Catalysts for Boosting Soot Oxidation Open

Kaixuan Chen, Linsheng Xu, Yuanfeng Li, Jing Xiong, Dawei Han , et al. · 2023

Herein, we present an in-depth investigation into the enhancement of catalytic soot oxidation through cerium-doped three-dimensional ordered macroporous (3DOM) La-Co-Ni-based perovskites synthesized with the colloidal crystal template (CCT…

Low-pass filter application for noise removal in water quality data with high temporal resolution Open

Elisa Coraggio, Claire Gronow, Theo Tryfonas, Dawei Han · 2023

Large datasets with high temporal resolution are becoming widely available through the use of wireless sensors and other low-effort, automated data collection techniques. The higher the sampling frequency is, the more obvious and significa…

Radar remote sensing reveals potential underestimation of rainfall erosivity at the global scale Open

Qiang Dai, Jingxuan Zhu, Guonian Lv, Latif Kalin, Yuanzhi Yao , et al. · 2023

Rainfall kinetic energy (RKE) constitutes one of the most critical factors that drive rainfall erosivity on surface soil. Direct measurements of RKE are limited, relying instead on the empirical relations between kinetic energy and rainfal…

Data Fusion for Estimating High-Resolution Urban Heatwave Air Temperature Open

Zitong Wen, Lu Zhuo, Qin Wang, Jiao Wang, Ying Liu , et al. · 2023

High-resolution air temperature data is indispensable for analysing heatwave-related non-accidental mortality. However, the limited number of weather stations in urban areas makes obtaining such data challenging. Multi-source data fusion h…

Hemoporfin-mediated photodynamic therapy for the treatment of port-wine stain: A multicenter, retrospective study Open

Xiaofeng Zhang, Yuan Chen, Xuemin Xiao, Rui Yin, Hongzhao Lei , et al. · 2023

Hemoporfin-mediated photodynamic therapy (Hemoporfin-PDT) has been approved for port-wine stain (PWS) in China in 2017. This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of Hemoporfin-PDT for PWS in a real life setting and investigated factors …

Developing spin-up time framework for WRF extreme precipitation simulations Open

Ying Liu, Lu Zhuo, Dawei Han · 2023

Interacting Effects of Precipitation and Potential Evapotranspiration Biases on Hydrological Modeling Open

Jiao Wang, Lu Zhuo, Miguel A. Rico‐Ramirez, Ahmed Abdelhalim, Dawei Han · 2023

The quality of precipitation ( P ) and potential evapotranspiration ( PET ) data greatly affects the hydrological modeling performance. Considerable attention has been paid to identifying the influence of biased P or PET inputs independent…

DeepRain: a separable residual convolutional neural algorithm with squeeze-excitation blocks for rainfall nowcasting Open

Ahmed Abdelhalim, Miguel A. Rico‐Ramirez, Dawei Han · 2023

Precipitation nowcasting is critical for mitigating the natural disasters caused by severe weather events. State-of-the-art operational nowcasting methods are radar extrapolation techniques that calculate the motion field from sequential r…

Predicting precipitation growth and decay with weather radar rainfall measurements Open

Chen Li, Miguel A. Rico‐Ramirez, Qin Wang, Weiru Liu, Dawei Han · 2023

Recently, weather radar has been increasingly used to estimate precipitation for a variety of hydrological and meteorological applications, including real-time flood forecasting, severe weather monitoring and warning, and short-term precip…

Exploring Domain Size for WRF High-Resolution Urban Rainfall Simulation Open

Sichan Du, Lu Zhuo, Elizabeth Kendon, Dawei Han · 2023

With climate change, rainfall is expected to get more intense, leading to cities being increasingly at risk of urban flooding. Understanding local climate change over cities has therefore become a priority for the scientific community and …

Rapid Flood inundation mapping using SAR data with Google Earth Engine cloud platform Open

Qin Wang, Lu Zhuo, Chen Li, Miguel A. Rico‐Ramirez, Zitong Wen , et al. · 2023

Flood events are becoming increasingly common with the increase in the frequency of extreme weather driven by climate change. The present state of the technologies for flood risk mapping is typically tested on small geographical regions du…

Estimating air temperature with high spatio-temporal resolution in urban areas during heatwaves using genetic programming algorithm combined with multi-source datasets Open

Zitong Wen, Lu Zhuo, Qin Wang, Dawei Han · 2023

The increasing frequency of heatwave events poses new threats to the health of urban residents. This effect can be exacerbated by the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. Air temperature is widely utilised in public health to quantify and a…

Recent Developments in the Application of the Derived Distribution Approach to Flood Frequency Open

Ross Woods, Yanchen Zheng, Roberto Quaglia, Yiming Yin, Giulia Giani , et al. · 2023

Flood estimation in ungauged basins is important for flood design, and for improving our understanding of the sensitivity of flood magnitude to changes in climate and land cover. Flood estimates by current methods (e.g. statistical regress…

In-orbit performance of LE onboard Insight-HXMT in the first 5 years Open

Xiao‐Bo Li, Yong Chen, L. M. Song, Wei Cui, Wěi Li , et al. · 2023

Purpose: The Low-Energy X-ray telescope (LE) is a main instrument of the Insight-HXMT mission and consists of 96 Swept Charge Devices (SCD) covering the 1-10 keV energy band. The energy gain and resolution are continuously calibrated by an…

Research on the Evaluation Mechanism of Platform Companies to Complementors in Building New E-Supply Chains1 Open

Chen Xiao-chun, Zhao Jie, Dawei Han, Xuanjin Du · 2023

This paper takes B2C platform enterprises as the main subject of evaluation and considers the construction of e-supply chains among complementary roles of the platform as the research object. It considers distributors-retailers-consumers a…

Hydrological Model Adaptability to Rainfall Inputs of Varied Quality Open

Jiao Wang, Lu Zhuo, Dawei Han, Ying Liu, Miguel A. Rico‐Ramirez · 2023

Numerous studies have evaluated the reliability and hydrologic utility of various rainfall data sets through hydrological modeling. However, the calibration of hydrological models compensates for errors in rainfall inputs. The drivers, con…

Are UK Rivers Getting Saltier and More Alkaline? Open

Shan Jiang, Xuan Wu, Sichan Du, Qin Wang, Dawei Han · 2022

River salinisation and alkalinisation have become one of the major environmental problems threatening the safety of global freshwater resources. With the accelerated climate change and aggravating anthropogenic influences, it is important …

The enhanced x-ray timing and polarimetry mission: eXTP: an update on its scientific cases, mission profile and development status Open

Shuang‐Nan Zhang, A. Santangelo, Y. P. Xu, Marco Feroci, M. Hernanz , et al. · 2022

The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission (eXTP) is a flagship observatory for X-ray timing, spectroscopy and polarimetry developed by an International Consortium. Thanks to its very large collecting area, good spectral resolution …

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