Integrated studies of a regional ozone pollution synthetically affected by subtropical high and typhoon system in the Yangtze River Delta region, China

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 15801-15819

  Shu, Lei ^a   Xie, Min ^a   Wang, Tijian ^a   Gao, Da ^a   Chen, Pulong ^a   Han, Yong ^a   Li, Shu ^a   Zhuang, Bingliang ^a   Li, Mengmeng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); OZONE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; HANGZHOU; SHANGHAI; YANGTZE DELTA; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 85007507357     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-15801-2016     Document Type: Article

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