Insights into a historic severe haze event in Shanghai: Synoptic situation, boundary layer and pollutants

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 9221-9234

  Leng, Chunpeng ^a   Duan, Junyan ^a   Xu, Chen ^a   Zhang, Hefeng ^b   Wang, Yifan ^a   Wang, Yanyu ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Kong, Lingdong ^a   Tao, Jun ^c   Zhang, Renjian ^d   Cheng, Tiantao ^a,e   Zha, Shuping ^e   Yu, Xingna ^e  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; HAZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; SHANGHAI; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 84979872999     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-9221-2016     Document Type: Article

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