Impacts of urbanization on long-term fog variation in Anhui Province, China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 8484-8492

  Shi, Chune ^a   Roth, Matthias ^b   Zhang, Hao ^a   Li, Zihua ^c  

^a Anhui Institute of Meteorological Sciences   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Fog frequency; Urban aerosol; Urban fog; Urban heat island; Urban visibility

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; VISIBILITY;

CHINA; URBAN AEROSOL; URBAN FOG; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN VISIBILITY;

FOG;

COAL;

AEROSOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOG; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMBUSTION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EXHAUST GAS; FOG; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBANIZATION;

ANHUI; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 54349087733     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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