Long-term observation of air pollution-weather/climate interactions at the SORPES station： a review and outlook

• Published in: Frontiers of environmental science & engineering Vol. 10; no. 5; pp. 9 - 23
• Main Authors: Ding, Aijun, Nie, Wei, Huang, Xin, Chi, Xuguang, Sun, Jianning, Kerminen, Veli-Matti, Xu, Zheng, Guo, Weidong, Petäjä, Tuukka, Yang, Xiuqun, Kulmala, Markku, Fu, Congbin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing Higher Education Press 01.10.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aerosols; Air pollution; Biomass burning; Dust storms; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth system processes; Environment; Fossil fuels; Fuel combustion; Ground-based measurement; Instrumentation; Planetary boundary layer meteorology; Plumes; Pollution studies; Review Article; Secondary pollution; Shuxiao WANG & Armistead G. RUSSELL; Storms; Trace gases; Understanding the processes of air pollution formation (Responsible Editors: Min SHAO; Weather; 华东地区; 天气; 展望; 气候; 生物质燃烧; 相互作用; 空气污染源; 站长; Ground-based measurement; Planetary boundary layer meteorology; Secondary pollution; Earth system processes
• ISSN: 2095-2201; 2095-221X
• DOI: 10.1007/s11783-016-0877-3

This work presents an overall introduction to the Station for Observing Regional Processes of the EarthSystem - SORPES in Nanjing, East China, and gives an overview about main scientific findings instudies of air pollution-weather/climate interactions obtained since 2011. The main results summarizedin this paper include overall characteristics of trace gases and aerosols, chemical transformationmechanisms for secondary pollutants like O3, HONO andsecondary ingrganic aerosols, and the airpollution- weather/climate interactions and feedbacks in mixed air pollution plumes from sources likefossil fuel combustion, biomass burning and dust storms. The future outlook of the development plan on instrumentation, networking and data-sharing for the SORPES station is also discussed.