Climate and weather characteristics in association with the active fires in northern Southeast Asia and spring air pollution in Taiwan during 2010 7-SEAS/Dongsha Experiment

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 35-50

  Yen, Ming Cheng ^a   Peng, Chi Ming ^b   Chen, Tsing Chang ^c   Chen, Ching Sen ^a   Lin, Neng Huei ^a   Tzeng, Ren Yow ^a   Lee, Yung An ^a   Lin, Cheng Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b WeatherRisk Explore Inc   (Taiwan)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Cold surge; Divergent circulation; Local East West circulation; Long range transport; Northwestern Pacific subtropical high

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MONITORING STATIONS; BIOMASS-BURNING; COLD SURGE; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; INDOCHINA PENINSULA; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC SUBTROPICAL HIGH; PARTICLE DISPERSION;

AIR QUALITY; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS BURNING; BOUNDARY LAYER; BUOYANCY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; DISPERSION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FIRE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL RAIN FOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPRING; SUMMER; TAIWAN; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER;

SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAIWAN;

EID: 84882601053     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.11.015     Document Type: Article

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