Anthropogenic fine particulate matter pollution will be exacerbated in eastern China due to 21st century GHG warming

Chen, Huopo; Wang, Huijun; Sun, Jianqi; Xu, Yangyang; Yin, Zhicong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-233-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-233-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 19, issue 1

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08 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 08 Jan 2019

Anthropogenic fine particulate matter pollution will be exacerbated in eastern China due to 21st century GHG warming

Huopo Chen, Huijun Wang, Jianqi Sun, Yangyang Xu, and Zhicong Yin

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-233-2019-supplement

Data sets

Site-observed surface hourly PM2.5 concentration across China China National Environmental Monitoring Centre http://beijingair.sinaapp.com/

Surface daily PM2.5 concentrations for the Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chengdu US Embassy Beijing http://www.stateair.net/web/historical/1/1.html

CESM1 RCP8.5_Fix Aerosol2005 simulations UCAR https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/dataset/ucar.cgd.ccsm4.output.html

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Our results show that the anthropogenic air pollution over eastern China will increase considerably at the end of 21st century, even though we keep the aerosol emission constant throughout the experiment. Furthermore, estimation shows that the effect of climate change induced by the GHG warming can account for 11%–28% of the changes of anthropogenic air pollution days over this region.