Seasonal variation of local atmospheric circulations and boundary layer structure in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and implications for air quality

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1602-1626

  Miao, Yucong ^a   Hu, Xiao Ming ^b,c   Liu, Shuhua ^a   Qian, Tingting ^d   Xue, Ming ^c   Zheng, Yijia ^a   Wang, Shu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

air pollution; Beijing Tianjin Hebei; boundary layer structure; local atmospheric circulations; Seasonal climate; WRF

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; SEASONAL CLIMATE; TIANJIN; WRF;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; HAZE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; SEA BREEZE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; HEBEI; TIANJIN;

EID: 84959462486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015MS000522     Document Type: Article

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