Heavy pollution episodes, transport pathways and potential sources of PM2.5 during the winter of 2013 in Chengdu (China)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 584-585, Issue , 2017, Pages 1056-1065

  Liao, Tingting ^a   Wang, Shan ^b   Ai, Jie ^a   Gui, Ke ^a   Duan, Bolong ^a   Zhao, Qi ^c   Zhang, Xiao ^a   Jiang, Wanting ^a   Sun, Yang ^d  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Xi an Meteorological Bureau   (China)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Air mass trajectories; Chengdu; Heavy pollution; PM2.5

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; TRAJECTORIES; WIND;

AIR MASS BACK TRAJECTORIES; AIR MASS TRAJECTORIES; CHENGDU; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; EXTREME POLLUTION EVENTS; HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; POTENTIAL SOURCE CONTRIBUTION FUNCTION MODELS;

POLLUTION;

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION MONITORING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; HUMIDITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; PRECIPITATION; URBAN AREA; WIND; WINTER; CITY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; METEOROLOGY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOOTH; WIND SPEED;

CHENGDU; CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; QIONGLAI MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN;

EID: 85027952206     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.160     Document Type: Article

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