Enhanced haze pollution by black carbon in megacities in China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2873-2879

  Ding, A J ^a,b   Huang, X ^a,b   Nie, W ^a,b   Sun, J N ^a,b   Kerminen, V M ^b,c   Petaja T ^b,c   Su, H ^a,d   Cheng, Y F ^d   Yang, X Q ^a,b   Wang, M H ^a,b   Chi, X G ^a,b   Wang, J P ^a,b   Virkkula, A ^a,b,c,e   Guo, W D ^a,b   Yuan, J ^a,b   Wang, S Y ^a,b   Zhang, R J ^f   Wu, Y F ^f   Song, Y ^g   Zhu, T ^g   Zilitinkevich, S ^c,e   Kulmala, M ^c   Fu, C B ^a,b   more..

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^g PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

air pollution; feedback; planetary boundary layer; radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FEEDBACK; HEAT FLUX; POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION IN MEGACITIES; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; HAZE POLLUTIONS; MODEL SIMULATION; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES;

AIR POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON EMISSION; EXTREME EVENT; HAZE; HEAT FLUX; MEGACITY; RADIATIVE FORCING;

CHINA;

EID: 84964689580     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067745     Document Type: Article

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