Impact of diurnal variability and meteorological factors on the PM2.5 - AOD relationship: Implications for PM2.5 remote sensing

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 221, Issue , 2017, Pages 94-104

  Guo, Jianping ^a   Xia, Feng ^a   Zhang, Yong ^b   Liu, Huan ^a,e   Li, Jing ^c   Lou, Mengyun ^a,e   He, Jing ^a   Yan, Yan ^a   Wang, Fu ^d   Min, Min ^d   Zhai, Panmao ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

AOD; China; Cloud fraction; Correlation analysis; PM2.5; Relative humidity

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGY; SPACE OPTICS;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; CHINA; CLOUD FRACTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; PM2.5; VARYING-CORRELATIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

AEROSOL; CORRELATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICULATE MATTER; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; REMOTE SENSING;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERE; AVERAGING; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER; SEASON; SOLAR RADIATION; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROCEDURES;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; YANGTZE DELTA; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SEASONS;

EID: 85008217206     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.11.043     Document Type: Article

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