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Research article
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01 Mar 2016
Research article |
| 01 Mar 2016
Evaluation and application of multi-decadal visibility data for trend analysis of atmospheric haze
Chi Li
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Randall V. Martin
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
Brian L. Boys
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Aaron van Donkelaar
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Sacha Ruzzante
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
now at: Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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We comprehensively screen and process global hourly visibility data to construct a more reliable monthly inverse visibility (1/Vis) data set, and to infer trends in atmospheric haze. Consistency is found for the inferred 1/Vis seasonality and trends with other collocated in situ aerosol measurements over the US and Europe. Trends of 1/Vis over 1945–1996 for the eastern US, and over 1973–2013 for Europe and eastern Asia are significantly associated with the variation of SO2 emission.
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