Numerical study of the effects of local atmospheric circulations on a pollution event over Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, China

Journal of Environmental Sciences (China)

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 9-20

  Miao, Yucong ^a   Liu, Shuhua ^a   Zheng, Yijia ^a   Wang, Shu ^a   Chen, Bicheng ^b   Zheng, Hui ^a,c   Zhao, Jingchuan ^a,d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollution; FLEXPART model; Mountain valley breeze circulation; Sea land breeze circulation; WRF model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLIMATOLOGY; LANDFORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BREEZE CIRCULATION; FLEXPART; PARTICLE DISPERSION MODEL; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SEA-LAND BREEZE; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF MODEL;

AIR POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; HAZE; LAND BREEZE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEA BREEZE;

BEIJING [CHINA]; BOHAI BAY; CHINA; HEBEI; TIANJIN;

AIR POLLUTANT;

AIR; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHINA; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84926454923     PISSN: 10010742     EISSN: 18787320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2014.08.025     Document Type: Article

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