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Atmosphere, Volume 8, Issue 4

2017 April - 16 articles

Cover Story: A special and unusual purple (magenta) haze episode was observed in Nanjing, China, at 17:00 on 22 December 2015. Many local and national news outlets reported on this event. One explanation of how a purple (combination of blue and red) light could be created is by green wavelengths being absorbed. Another way involves pollution gases or particles together with small liquid/water droplets, but this still needs further clarification. A third possibility is that the combination of transmitted red light from the sun and scattered blue light could produce a purple/magenta color in the sky. By Duanyang Liu. View this paper.
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,023 Views
16 Pages

23 April 2017

Micro pulse lidar is a promising tool for retrieving the convective boundary layer height (CBLH), but its application has been hindered by sharp extinction of the signal in high humidity conditions, e.g., clouds. To remedy this, we developed an effec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,407 Views
13 Pages

Mobile DOAS Observations of Tropospheric NO2 Using an UltraLight Trike and Flux Calculation

  • Daniel-Eduard Constantin,
  • Alexis Merlaud,
  • Mirela Voiculescu,
  • Carmelia Dragomir,
  • Lucian Georgescu,
  • Francois Hendrick,
  • Gaia Pinardi and
  • Michel Van Roozendael

22 April 2017

In this study, we report on airborne Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) observations of tropospheric NO2 using an Ultralight Trike (ULT) and associated flux calculations. The instrument onboard the ULT was developed for measuring the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,348 Views
15 Pages

20 April 2017

Radar systems provide the most useful information about the intensity, movement, and characteristics of severe thunderstorms, but are expensive to maintain and require extensive maintenance. In South Africa, some areas are not covered by radar system...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,131 Views
10 Pages

A New Type of Haze? The December 2015 Purple (Magenta) Haze Event in Nanjing, China

  • Duanyang Liu,
  • Xuejun Liu,
  • Hongbin Wang,
  • Yi Li,
  • Zhiming Kang,
  • Lu Cao,
  • Xingna Yu and
  • Hao Chen

14 April 2017

A special and unusual purple (magenta) haze episode was observed in Nanjing, China, at 17:00 on 22 December 2015. Many local and national news outlets reported this event. Based on an analysis of the pollution features and meteorological factors, inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,630 Views
19 Pages

PM2.5 Characteristics in Qingdao and across Coastal Cities in China

  • Ruidong Wu,
  • Xuehua Zhou,
  • Linpeng Wang,
  • Zhe Wang,
  • Yang Zhou,
  • Jingzhu Zhang and
  • Wenxing Wang

13 April 2017

A year-long study was performed to comprehensively investigate the mass concentration, water-soluble ions, organic and elemental carbons, and elemental components of atmospheric fine particles from March 2006 to February 2007 in Qingdao. The results...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,440 Views
13 Pages

12 April 2017

We analyze the relationship between four climate variables (maximum and minimum extreme temperatures, rainfall and snowfall) measured in winter (December to March) at 17 stations from 1950 to 2000 in the three hydroclimate regions of southern Quebec,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,637 Views
16 Pages

10 April 2017

A prototype-based method is developed to discriminate different types of clutter (ground clutter, sea clutter, and insects) from weather echoes using polarimetric measurements and their textures. This method employs a clustering algorithm to generate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,429 Views
13 Pages

Characteristics and Source Analysis of Water-Soluble Inorganic Ions in PM10 in a Typical Mining City, Central China

  • Hongxia Liu,
  • Jingru Zheng,
  • Chengkai Qu,
  • Jiaquan Zhang,
  • Yongkui Wang,
  • Changlin Zhan,
  • Ruizhen Yao and
  • Junji Cao

A total of 61 PM10 samples in Huangshi (HS), Central China, were collected every sixth day from April 2012 to March 2013 and were analyzed for water-soluble inorganic ions (WSIIs) by ion chromatography. The sum of three major ions (SO42−, NO3, and N...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,654 Views
14 Pages

In order to investigate the size distributions and seasonal variations of carbonaceous aerosols (organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC)), the carbonaceous species were collected in Nanjing, a typical industrial city located in Yangtze River De...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
8,888 Views
17 Pages

Meteorological conditions significantly influence air pollution. The Chengdu plain, with few external pollution sources and homogeneous meteorological conditions, is a natural lab to study the effects of meteorological elements on the diffusion and d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,851 Views
14 Pages

(1) Background: To demonstrate the potential effects of missing exposure data and model choice on public health conclusions concerning the impact of heat waves on heat-related morbidity. (2) Methods: Using four different methods to impute missing exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,781 Views
21 Pages

Q-Space Analysis of the Light Scattering Phase Function of Particles with Any Shape

  • Christopher M. Sorensen,
  • Yuli W. Heinson,
  • William R. Heinson,
  • Justin B. Maughan and
  • Amit Chakrabarti

29 March 2017

Q-space analysis is applied to the light scattering phase function of a wide variety of non-spherical and irregularly shaped particles including a great many types of dusts, fractal aggregates, spheroids, irregular spheres, Gaussian random spheres, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,099 Views
16 Pages

Quantifying Light Absorption of Iron Oxides and Carbonaceous Aerosol in Seasonal Snow across Northern China

  • Yue Zhou,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Xueqin Wu,
  • Zhiyuan Cong,
  • Guangming Wu and
  • Mingxia Ji

28 March 2017

In this study, we attempted to quantify light absorption by insoluble light-absorbing particles (ILAPs) such as black carbon (BC), organic carbon (OC) and iron oxides in snow using an optical method directly and compared the results with those obtain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,347 Views
13 Pages

24 March 2017

The concentrations of the ozone-depleting greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) in the upper 300 m of the Subarctic and Arctic Oceans determined during the 5th Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition were studied. The surface water samples revealed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,090 Views
12 Pages

24 March 2017

To characterize atmospheric dissolved iron over Newark, a large metropolitan city on US east coast, size-segregated (0.056–18 μm in aerodynamic diameter) aerosols were collected in downtown Newark, New Jersey during August to October 2012. Aerosols s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,393 Views
14 Pages

23 March 2017

A reconstructed land use/land cover change (LUCC) dataset was used with the Community Earth System Model (CESM) to conduct a climate sensitivity analysis over the past two millennia. Compared to a controlled experiment conducted with the CESM, the LU...

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