Long-term atmospheric visibility, sunshine duration and precipitation trends in South China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 204-216

  Liao, Wenhui ^a,b   Wang, Xuemei ^a   Fan, Qi ^a   Zhou, Shengzhen ^a   Chang, Ming ^a   Wang, Zhimin ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Tu, Qiulan ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cross correlation; Multifractal structure; Sunshine duration

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; FRACTALS; METEOROLOGY; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC VISIBILITY; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DETRENDED CROSS-CORRELATIONS ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; MULTIFRACTAL STRUCTURE; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TRENDS; SUNSHINE DURATION;

VISIBILITY;

RAIN;

AEROSOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INDUSTRIALIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINSTORM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHINA; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SUN; URBANIZATION; VISIBILITY;

CHINA;

EID: 84923299782     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.02.015     Document Type: Article

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