Seesaw haze pollution in North China modulated by the sub-seasonal variability of atmospheric circulation
Utilizing a recent observational dataset of particulate matter with diameters less than 2.5 µ m (PM 2.5 ) in North China, this study reveals adistinct seesaw feature of abnormally high and low PM 2.5 concentrationsin the adjacent two months of December 2015 and January 2016, accompanied bydistinct m...
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ftosti:oai:osti.gov:1496805 2023-07-30T04:02:03+02:00 Seesaw haze pollution in North China modulated by the sub-seasonal variability of atmospheric circulation Zhang, Ge Gao, Yang Cai, Wenju Leung, L. Ruby Wang, Shuxiao Zhao, Bin Wang, Minghuai Shan, Huayao Yao, Xiaohong Gao, Huiwang 2023-06-28 application/pdf http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1496805 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1496805 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-565-2019 unknown http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1496805 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1496805 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-565-2019 doi:10.5194/acp-19-565-2019 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 2023 ftosti https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-565-2019 2023-07-11T09:31:35Z Utilizing a recent observational dataset of particulate matter with diameters less than 2.5 µ m (PM 2.5 ) in North China, this study reveals adistinct seesaw feature of abnormally high and low PM 2.5 concentrationsin the adjacent two months of December 2015 and January 2016, accompanied bydistinct meteorological modulations. The seesaw pattern is postulated to belinked to a super El Niño and the Arctic Oscillation (AO). During themature phase of El Niño in December 2015, the weakened East Asian wintermonsoon (EAWM) and the associated low-level southerly wind anomaly reducedplanetary boundary layer (PBL) height, favoring strong haze formation. Thiscirculation pattern was completely reversed in the following month, in partdue to a sudden phase change of the AO from positive to negative and thebeginning of a decay of the El Niño, which enhanced the southward shiftof the upper tropospheric jet from December to January relative toclimatology, leading to an enhanced EAWM and substantially lower hazeformation. This sub-seasonal change in circulation is also robustly found in1982–1983 and 1997–1998, implicative of a general physical mechanismdynamically linked to El Niño and the AO. Numerical experiments using theWeather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Community Multiscale Air Quality(CMAQ) model were used to test the modulation of the meteorologicalconditions on haze formation. With the same emission, simulations for threesuper El Niño periods (1983, 1997 and 2015) robustly show higherPM 2.5 concentrations under the mature phase of the super El Niño,but substantially lower PM 2.5 concentrations during the decay phase ofEl Niño (and the sudden AO phase change), further verifying themodulation effect of the sub-seasonal circulation anomaly on PM 2.5 concentrations in North China Other/Unknown Material Arctic SciTec Connect (Office of Scientific and Technical Information - OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy) Arctic Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 1 565 576 |
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Utilizing a recent observational dataset of particulate matter with diameters less than 2.5 µ m (PM 2.5 ) in North China, this study reveals adistinct seesaw feature of abnormally high and low PM 2.5 concentrationsin the adjacent two months of December 2015 and January 2016, accompanied bydistinct meteorological modulations. The seesaw pattern is postulated to belinked to a super El Niño and the Arctic Oscillation (AO). During themature phase of El Niño in December 2015, the weakened East Asian wintermonsoon (EAWM) and the associated low-level southerly wind anomaly reducedplanetary boundary layer (PBL) height, favoring strong haze formation. Thiscirculation pattern was completely reversed in the following month, in partdue to a sudden phase change of the AO from positive to negative and thebeginning of a decay of the El Niño, which enhanced the southward shiftof the upper tropospheric jet from December to January relative toclimatology, leading to an enhanced EAWM and substantially lower hazeformation. This sub-seasonal change in circulation is also robustly found in1982–1983 and 1997–1998, implicative of a general physical mechanismdynamically linked to El Niño and the AO. Numerical experiments using theWeather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Community Multiscale Air Quality(CMAQ) model were used to test the modulation of the meteorologicalconditions on haze formation. With the same emission, simulations for threesuper El Niño periods (1983, 1997 and 2015) robustly show higherPM 2.5 concentrations under the mature phase of the super El Niño,but substantially lower PM 2.5 concentrations during the decay phase ofEl Niño (and the sudden AO phase change), further verifying themodulation effect of the sub-seasonal circulation anomaly on PM 2.5 concentrations in North China |
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Zhang, Ge Gao, Yang Cai, Wenju Leung, L. Ruby Wang, Shuxiao Zhao, Bin Wang, Minghuai Shan, Huayao Yao, Xiaohong Gao, Huiwang |
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Seesaw haze pollution in North China modulated by the sub-seasonal variability of atmospheric circulation |
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Seesaw haze pollution in North China modulated by the sub-seasonal variability of atmospheric circulation |
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