Effect of cold wave on winter visibility over eastern China

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2394-2406

  Qu, Wenjun ^a   Wang, Jun ^b   Zhang, Xiaoye ^c   Yang, Zhifeng ^b   Gao, Shanhong ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD AIR; HAZE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WIND; VISIBILITY; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

CHINA;

EID: 84927690277     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021958     Document Type: Article

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