Haze days in North China and the associated atmospheric circulations based on daily visibility data from 1960 to 2012

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 5895-5909

  Chen, Huopo ^a,b,c   Wang, Huijun ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; HAZE; JET FLOW; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; URBAN REGION; VISIBILITY; WIND DIRECTION;

CHINA;

EID: 84955748932     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023225     Document Type: Article

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