Typical synoptic situations and their impacts on the wintertime air pollution in the Guanzhong basin, China

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 7373-7387

  Bei, Naifang ^a,b   Li, Guohui ^b   Huang, Ru Jin ^b,c   Cao, Junji ^b   Meng, Ning ^a   Feng, Tian ^a,b   Liu, Suixin ^b   Zhang, Ting ^b   Zhang, Qiang ^d   Molina, Luisa T ^e  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e MOLINA CENTER FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WINTER;

CHINA; GUANZHONG PLAIN; SHAANXI;

EID: 84975028898     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-7373-2016     Document Type: Article

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