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Research article
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28 Oct 2020
Research article |
| 28 Oct 2020
| 28 Oct 2020
Roles of climate variability on the rapid increases of early winter haze pollution in North China after 2010
Yijia Zhang
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Centre on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Zhicong Yin
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Centre on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai),
Zhuhai, China
Nansen-Zhu International Research Center, Institute of Atmospheric
Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Huijun Wang
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Centre on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai),
Zhuhai, China
Nansen-Zhu International Research Center, Institute of Atmospheric
Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Distinct evolutions of haze pollution from winter to the following spring over the North China Plain: role of the North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies L. Song et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-1669-2022
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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.
Haze events in early winter in North China exhibited rapid growth after 2010, which was...
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