Roles of climate variability on the rapid increases of early winter haze pollution in North China after 2010

Zhang, Yijia; Yin, Zhicong; Wang, Huijun

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12211-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 20

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 12211–12221, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12211-2020

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Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 12211–12221, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12211-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 20

Research article 28 Oct 2020

Research article | 28 Oct 2020

Roles of climate variability on the rapid increases of early winter haze pollution in North China after 2010

Yijia Zhang et al.

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RC1: 'Roles of Climate Variability on the Rapid Increase of Winter Haze Pollution in North China after 2010', Shaw Chen Liu, 01 Jul 2020
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Yin Zhicong, 17 Aug 2020
RC2: 'Review of Zhang et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Jul 2020
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Yin Zhicong, 17 Aug 2020

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Short summary

Haze events in early winter in North China exhibited rapid growth after 2010, which was completely different from the slow decline observed before 2010. However, global warming and anthropogenic emissions could not explain this trend reversal well, which was puzzling. Our study found that four climate factors, exhibiting completely opposite trends before and after 2010, effectively drove the trend reversal of the haze pollution in North China.