Journal
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 18, Issue 7, Pages 4753-4763Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-18-4753-2018
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41705058, 91744311]
- KLME Open Foundation [KLME1607]
- CAS-PKU Partnership Program
- Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology [20172007]
- Jiangsu innovation & entrepreneurship team
- Priority Academic Program Development (PAPD) of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
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The haze pollution in December has become increasingly serious over recent decades and imposes damage on society, ecosystems, and human health. In addition to anthropogenic emissions, climate change and variability were conducive to haze in China. In this study, the relationship between the snow cover over eastern Europe and western Siberia (SCES) and the number of haze days in December in central North China was analyzed. This relationship significantly strengthened after the mid-1990s, which is attributed to the effective connections between the SCES and the Eurasian atmospheric circulations. During 1998-2016, the SCES significantly influenced the soil moisture and land surface radiation, and then the combined underlying drivers of enhanced soil moisture and radiative cooling moved the the East Asia jet stream northward and induced anomalous, anti-cyclonic circulation over central North China. Modulated by such atmospheric circulations, the local lower boundary layer, the decreased surface wind, and the more humid air were conducive to the worsening dispersion conditions and frequent haze occurrences. In contrast, from 1979 to 1997, the linkage between the SCES and soil moisture was negligible. Furthermore, the correlated radiative cooling was distributed narrowly and far from the key area of snow cover. The associated atmospheric circulations with the SCES were not significantly linked with the ventilation conditions over central North China. Consequently, the relationship between the SCES and the number of hazy days in central North China was insignificant before the mid-1990s but has strengthened and has become significant since then.
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