Long-term observation of air pollution-weather/climate interactions at the SORPES station: a review and outlook

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Ding, Aijun ^a   Nie, Wei ^a   Huang, Xin ^a   Chi, Xuguang ^a   Sun, Jianning ^a   Kerminen, Veli Matti ^b   Xu, Zheng ^a   Guo, Weidong ^a   Petäjä, Tuukka ^a,b   Yang, Xiuqun ^a   Kulmala, Markku ^b   Fu, Congbin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Earth system processes; Ground based measurement; Planetary boundary layer meteorology; Secondary pollution

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; POLLUTION; STORMS;

CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; EARTH SYSTEMS; FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; OVERALL CHARACTERISTICS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SECONDARY INORGANIC AEROSOL; SECONDARY POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION;

EID: 84989353494     PISSN: 20952201     EISSN: 2095221X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-016-0877-3     Document Type: Review

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