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Comparison of the influence of two types of cold surge on haze dispersion in eastern China
Shiyue Zhang
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
Gang Zeng
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
Xiaoye Yang
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
Ruixi Wu
Meteorological Bureau of Jiading District, Shanghai, 201815, China
Zhicong Yin
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory
(Zhuhai), Zhuhai, 519080, China
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This study classified the winter cold surge in eastern China into blocking cold surge and wave-train cold surge and investigated the difference of haze dispersion ability between the two types. The results show that the haze dispersion of blocking cold surge is weaker than that of wave-train cold surge. In the past 4 decades, the frequency of wave-train (blocking) cold surge shows a downward (upward) trend, which means that the ability of cold surge to disperse haze is declining.
This study classified the winter cold surge in eastern China into blocking cold surge and...
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