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DOI | 10.5194/acp-18-203-2018 |
Quantifying the relationship between PM2.5 concentration, visibility and planetary boundary layer height for long-lasting haze and fog-haze mixed events in Beijing | |
Luan, Tian1,2; Guo, Xueliang1,2,3; Guo, Lijun1,2; Zhang, Tianhang4 | |
2018-01-08 | |
发表期刊 | ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS |
ISSN | 1680-7316 |
EISSN | 1680-7324 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 18期号:1页码:203-225 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Peoples R China |
英文摘要 | Air quality and visibility are strongly influenced by aerosol loading, which is driven by meteorological conditions. The quantification of their relationships is critical to understanding the physical and chemical processes and forecasting of the polluted events. We investigated and quantified the relationship between PM2.5 (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter is 2.5 mu m and less) mass concentration, visibility and planetary boundary layer (PBL) height in this study based on the data obtained from four long-lasting haze events and seven fog-haze mixed events from January 2014 to March 2015 in Beijing. The statistical results show that there was a negative exponential function between the visibility and the PM2.5 mass concentration for both haze and fog-haze mixed events (with the same R-2 of 0.80). However, the fog-haze events caused a more obvious decrease of visibility than that for haze events due to the formation of fog droplets that could induce higher light extinction. The PM2.5 concentration had an inversely linear correlation with PBL height for haze events and a negative exponential correlation for fog-haze mixed events, indicating that the PM2.5 concentration is more sensitive to PBL height in fog-haze mixed events. The visibility had positively linear correlation with the PBL height with an R-2 of 0.35 in haze events and positive exponential correlation with an R-2 of 0.56 in fog-haze mixed events. We also investigated the physical mechanism responsible for these relationships between visibility, PM2.5 concentration and PBL height through typical haze and fog-haze mixed event and found that a double inversion layer formed in both typical events and played critical roles in maintaining and enhancing the long-lasting polluted events. The variations of the double inversion layers were closely associated with the processes of long-wave radiation cooling in the nighttime and short-wave solar radiation reduction in the daytime. The upper-level stable inversion layer was formed by the persistent warm and humid southwestern airflow, while the low-level inversion layer was initially produced by the surface long-wave radiation cooling in the nighttime and maintained by the reduction of surface solar radiation in the daytime. The obvious descending process of the upper-level inversion layer induced by the radiation process could be responsible for the enhancement of the low-level inversion layer and the lowering PBL height, as well as high aerosol loading for these polluted events. The reduction of surface solar radiation in the daytime could be around 35% for the haze event and 94% for the fog-haze mixed event. Therefore, the formation and subsequent descending processes of the upper-level inversion layer should be an important factor in maintaining and strengthening the long-lasting severe polluted events, which has not been revealed in previous publications. The interactions and feedbacks between PM2.5 concentration and PBL height linked by radiation process caused a more significant and long-lasting deterioration of air quality and visibility in fog-haze mixed events. The interactions and feedbacks of all processes were particularly strong when the PM2.5 mass concentration was larger than 150-200 mu g m(-3). |
领域 | 地球科学 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000419530300003 |
WOS关键词 | AIR-POLLUTION ; MIXING-LAYER ; NORTH CHINA ; PARTICULATE POLLUTION ; VERTICAL-DISTRIBUTION ; AEROSOL COMPOSITIONS ; WEATHER CONDITIONS ; LIDAR OBSERVATIONS ; BLACK CARBON ; JANUARY 2013 |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/27277 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Meteorol Sci, State Key Lab Severe Weather LASW, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China; 2.Chinese Acad Meteorol Sci, Key Lab Cloud Phys, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China; 3.Nanjing Univ Informat Sci & Technol, Collaborat Innovat Ctr Meteorol Disasters Forecas, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, Peoples R China; 4.Natl Meteorol Ctr, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Luan, Tian,Guo, Xueliang,Guo, Lijun,et al. Quantifying the relationship between PM2.5 concentration, visibility and planetary boundary layer height for long-lasting haze and fog-haze mixed events in Beijing[J]. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,2018,18(1):203-225. |
APA | Luan, Tian,Guo, Xueliang,Guo, Lijun,&Zhang, Tianhang.(2018).Quantifying the relationship between PM2.5 concentration, visibility and planetary boundary layer height for long-lasting haze and fog-haze mixed events in Beijing.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,18(1),203-225. |
MLA | Luan, Tian,et al."Quantifying the relationship between PM2.5 concentration, visibility and planetary boundary layer height for long-lasting haze and fog-haze mixed events in Beijing".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 18.1(2018):203-225. |
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