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Research article
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19 May 2022
Research article |
| 19 May 2022
| 19 May 2022
The impact of large-scale circulation on daily fine particulate matter (PM2.5) over major populated regions of China in winter
Zixuan Jia
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Ruth M. Doherty
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Carlos Ordóñez
Departamento de Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica, Facultad
de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Chaofan Li
Center for Monsoon System Research, Institute of Atmospheric Physics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Oliver Wild
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Shipra Jain
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Xiao Tang
LAPC, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China
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Black carbon (BC) is a component of particulate matter which has significant effects on climate and human health. Sources of BC include biomass burning, transport, industry and domestic cooking and heating. In this study, we measured BC emissions in Beijing, finding a dominance of traffic emissions over all other sources. The quantitative method presented here has benefits for revising widely used emissions inventories and for understanding BC sources with impacts on air quality and climate.
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Air quality in Beijing is of concern to both policy makers and the general public. In order to address concerns about air quality it is vital that the sources of atmospheric pollutants are understood. This work presents the first top-down measurement of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions in Beijing. These measurements are used to evaluate the emissions inventory and assess the impact of VOC emission from the city centre on atmospheric chemistry.
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This study investigates the modulation of daily PM2.5 over three major populated regions in China by regional meteorology and large-scale circulation during winter. These results demonstrate the benefits of considering the large-scale circulation for air quality studies. The novel circulation indices proposed here can explain a considerable fraction of the day-to-day variability of PM2.5 and can be combined with regional meteorology to improve our capability to predict the variability of PM2.5.
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