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Possible influence of sudden stratospheric warmings on the atmospheric environment in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region
Qian Lu
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education
(KLME)/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
Key Laboratory of Meteorology and Ecological Environment of Hebei
Province, Shijiazhuang 050021, China
Chengde Meteorological Service of Hebei Province, Chengde, Hebei
067000, China
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education
(KLME)/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
Chunhua Shi
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education
(KLME)/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
Dong Guo
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education
(KLME)/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
Guiqin Fu
Key Laboratory of Meteorology and Ecological Environment of Hebei
Province, Shijiazhuang 050021, China
Ji Wang
Beijing Regional Climate Center, Beijing 100089, China
Zhuoqi Liang
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education
(KLME)/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
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Short summary
Existing evidence mainly focuses on the possible impact of tropospheric climate anomalies on the regional air pollutions, but few studies pay attention to the impact of stratospheric changes on haze pollutions in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region. Our study reveals the linkage between the stratospheric variability and the regional atmospheric environment. The downward-propagating stratospheric signals might have a cleaning effect on the atmospheric environment in the BTH region.
Existing evidence mainly focuses on the possible impact of tropospheric climate anomalies on the...
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