The effect of meteorological elements on continuing heavy air pollution: A case study in the chengdu area during the 2014 spring festival

Atmosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Zeng, Shenglan ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary layer structure; Chengdu area; Haze pollution stage; Meteorological element

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FOG; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; CHENGDU; HAZE POLLUTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL ELEMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; METEOROLOGICAL MONITORING;

POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HAZE; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE;

CHENGDU; CHINA; SICHUAN;

EID: 85017365939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos8040071     Document Type: Article

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