Insights into a historic severe haze event in Shanghai: synoptic situation,
boundary layer and pollutants

Leng, Chunpeng; Duan, Junyan; Xu, Chen; Zhang, Hefeng; Wang, Yifan; Wang, Yanyu; Li, Xiang; Kong, Lingdong; Tao, Jun; Zhang, Renjian; Cheng, Tiantao; Zha, Shuping; Yu, Xingna

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9221-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 14

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9221-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9221-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 14

Research article

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27 Jul 2016

Research article |

| 27 Jul 2016

Insights into a historic severe haze event in Shanghai: synoptic situation, boundary layer and pollutants

Chunpeng Leng, Junyan Duan, Chen Xu, Hefeng Zhang, Yifan Wang, Yanyu Wang, Xiang Li, Lingdong Kong, Jun Tao, Renjian Zhang, Tiantao Cheng, Shuping Zha, and Xingna Yu

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RC C10344: 'Reviewer's comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Dec 2015
- AC C13695: 'Response for referee 1', Tiantao Cheng, 12 Jun 2016
RC C10480: 'Comments on "Insights into a historic severe haze weather in Shanghai" by Leng et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Dec 2015
- AC C13694: 'Response for Referee 2', Tiantao Cheng, 12 Jun 2016
RC C12251: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 08 Feb 2016
- AC C13693: 'Response for Referee 3', Tiantao Cheng, 12 Jun 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Tiantao Cheng on behalf of the Authors (13 Jun 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (24 Jun 2016) by Sachin S. Gunthe

AR by Tiantao Cheng on behalf of the Authors (27 Jun 2016)

Short summary

Meteorological conditions, local anthropogenic emissions and aerosol properties played major roles in this historic winter haze weather formation. Aerosols the size of 600–1400 nm are mostly responsible for the impairment of atmospheric visibility. This study was performed by combining many on-line measurement techniques which were calibrated regularly to ensure reliability, and can act as a reference for forecasting and eliminating the occurrences of regional atmospheric pollutions in China.