A modeling study of severe winter haze events in Beijing and its neighboring regions

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 170, Issue , 2016, Pages 87-97

  Li, Jiawei ^a   Han, Zhiwei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing; Haze; Meteorology; PM2.5; Source contribution

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY;

BEIJING; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; HAZE; HAZE POLLUTIONS; REGIONAL AIR QUALITY MODELING; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SENSITIVITY SIMULATION; SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84949813098     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.11.009     Document Type: Article

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