Urban air quality and regional haze weather forecast for Yangtze River Delta region

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 58, Issue , 2012, Pages 70-83

  Wang, Tijian ^a   Jiang, Fei ^a   Deng, Junjun ^a,d   Shen, Yi ^a   Fu, Qinyan ^b   Wang, Qian ^b   Fu, Yin ^c   Xu, Jianhua ^c   Zhang, Danning ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center   (China)

^c Nanjing Environmental Monitoring Center   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Air quality forecast; Haze weather forecast; Nanjing; Shanghai; Yangtze River Delta

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY FORECASTS; NANJING; SHANGHAI; WEATHER FORECASTS; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

AIR QUALITY; DUST; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SULFUR DIOXIDE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS BURNING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DUST; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; HAZE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION INDEX; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; URBAN AREA; WEATHER FORECAST;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU]; SHANGHAI; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 84863990701     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.01.014     Document Type: Article

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