Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7575-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7575-2022
Research article
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13 Jun 2022
Research article |  | 13 Jun 2022

The relationship between PM2.5 and anticyclonic wave activity during summer over the United States

Ye Wang, Natalie Mahowald, Peter Hess, Wenxiu Sun, and Gang Chen

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PM2.5 is positively related to anticyclonic wave activity (AWA) changes close to the observing sites. Changes between current and future climates in AWA can explain up to 75 % of PM2.5 variability at some stations using a linear regression model. Our analysis indicates that higher PM2.5 concentrations occur when a positive AWA anomaly is prominent, which could be critical for understanding how pollutants respond to changing atmospheric circulation and for developing robust pollution projections.
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