Impact of boundary-layer anticyclonic weather system on regional air quality

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2453-2463

  Wei, Peng ^a   Cheng, Shuiyuan ^a   Li, Jianbing ^b   Su, Fuqing ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Anticyclone; FLEXPART model; PM10; WRF model

Indexed keywords

AIR PRESSURES; ANTICYCLONE; ANTICYCLONE SYSTEM; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT; FLEXPART MODEL; HIGH CONCENTRATION; ISOBARIC PRESSURE; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE DISPERSION MODEL; LINEAR REGRESSION EQUATION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MIXING LAYERS; NORTHERN CHINA; PER UNIT; PM10; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRESSURE FIELD; PRESSURE VARIABILITY; PRESSURE VARIATIONS; REGIONAL AIR POLLUTION; REGIONAL AIR QUALITY; STABLE CHANNELS; TIME INTERVAL; TRANSPORT TRAJECTORIES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WEATHER SYSTEMS; WRF MODEL;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; POLLUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

AIR QUALITY; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MIXED LAYER; PARTICULATE FLUX; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TRAJECTORY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

CHINA;

EID: 79953279192     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.01.045     Document Type: Article

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