Exploring the severe winter haze in Beijing: The impact of synoptic weather, regional transport and heterogeneous reactions

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2969-2983

  Zheng, G J ^a   Duan, F K ^a   Su, H ^b   Ma, Y L ^a   Cheng, Y ^a   Zheng, B ^a   Zhang, Q ^a,e   Huang, T ^c   Kimoto, T ^c   Chang, D ^b   Poschl U ^b   Cheng, Y F ^b   He, K B ^a,d,e  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c Tennouji Ku   (Japan)

^d State Environmental Protection Administration   (China)

^e Improvement with Forestry and Fruit Trees   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HAZE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEVERE WEATHER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WINTER;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84924943348     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-2969-2015     Document Type: Article

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