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@ARTICLE{Shen:1028493,
author = {Shen, Fuzhen and Hegglin, Michaela I.},
collaboration = {Yuan, Yue},
title = {{I}mpact of weather patterns and meteorological factors on
{PM} 2.5 and {O} 3 responses to the {COVID}-19 lockdown in
{C}hina},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {24},
number = {11},
issn = {1680-7316},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2024-04645},
pages = {6539 - 6553},
year = {2024},
abstract = {Haze events in the North China Plain (NCP) and a decline in
ozone levels in Southern Coast China (SC) from 21 January to
9 February 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown have attracted
public curiosity and scholarly attention. Most previous
studies focused on the impact of atmospheric chemistry
processes associated with anomalous weather elements in
these cases, but fewer studies quantified the impact of
various weather elements within the context of a specific
weather pattern. To identify the weather patterns
responsible for inducing this unexpected situation and to
further quantify the importance of different meteorological
factors during the haze event, two approaches are employed.
These approaches implemented the comparisons of observations
in 2020 with climatology averaged over the years 2015–2019
with a novel structural SOM (self-organising map) model and
with the prediction of the “business as usual”
(hereafter referred to as BAU) emission strength by the GBM
(gradient-boosting machine) model, respectively. The results
reveal that the unexpected PM2.5 pollution and O3 decline
from the climatology in NCP and SC could be effectively
explained by the presence of a double-centre high-pressure
system across China. Moreover, the GBM results provided a
quantitative assessment of the importance of each
meteorological factor in driving the predictions of PM2.5
and O3 under the specific weather system. These results
indicate that temperature played the most crucial role in
the haze event in NCP, as well as in the O3 change in SC.
This valuable information will ultimately contribute to our
ability to predict air pollution under future emission
scenarios and changing weather patterns that may be
influenced by climate change.},
cin = {IEK-7},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-7-20101013},
pnm = {2112 - Climate Feedbacks (POF4-211)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2112},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:001239202700001},
doi = {10.5194/acp-24-6539-2024},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1028493},
}