This volume presents recent developments in atmospheric sciences driven by numerical modeling which makes use of geospatial technologies and increasing computational power. It gathers examples of how geoinformatics supports meteorological, climatological and water-related studies. One of the most important features of geospatial technologies is that they provide methods and tools which may be utilized in real time or near real time in order to monitor and predict atmospheric processes. This is particularly crucial in areas where dynamics of atmospheric phenomena is considerable and causes difficulties in accurate forecasting. One of such areas is the transitional zone between oceanic and continental features of the mid-latitude climate. Good examples of investigations into the transitional zone come from Poland and its neighboring countries. The topical volume provides the reader with a selection of papers on physically-based and data-based modelling of weather-related phenomena over Poland. This main theme of the topical volume is extended to cover case studies on the use of geoinformatics in atmospheric studies in other regions at a range of spatial scales.

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Biweekly Sea Surface Temperature over the South China Sea and its association with the Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon.- North Equatorial Indian Ocean Convection and Indian Summer Monsoon June Progression: a Case Study of 2013 and 2014.- Sensitivity Study of Cloud Cover and Ozone Modeling to Microphysics Parameterization.- High-Resolution Dynamical Downscaling of ERA-Interim Using the WRF Regional Climate Model for the Area of Poland. Part 1: Model Configuration and Statistical Evaluation for the 19812010 Period.- High-Resolution Dynamical Downscaling of ERA-Interim Using the WRF Regional Climate Model for the Area of Poland. Part 2: Model Performance with Respect to Automatically Derived Circulation Types.- Aerosol-Radiation Feedback and PM10 Air Concentrations Over Poland.- The Relevance of Surface Roughness Data Qualities in Diagnostic Modeling of Wind Velocity in Complex Terrain: A Case Study from the nienik Massif (SW Poland).- The Role of Auxiliary Variables in Deterministic and Deterministic-Stochastic Spatial Models of Air Temperature in Poland.- Spatial Interpolation of Ewert's Index of Continentality in Poland.- Geospatial Predictive Modelling for Climate Mapping of Selected Severe Weather Phenomena Over Poland: A Methodological Approach.- Geocomputation and Spatial Modelling for Geographical Drought Risk Assessment: A Case Study of the Hustopee Area, Czech Republic.- The Use of Geospatial Technologies in Flood Hazard Mapping and Assessment: Case Study from River Evros.- Regional L-Moment-Based Flood Frequency Analysis in the Upper Vistula River Basin, Poland.- GNSS Vertical Coordinate Time Series Analysis Using Single-Channel Independent Component Analysis Method.