Jie Su

TL;DR: In this article, the Mesoscale Modeling System Generation 5 (MM5) and the Models-3/Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system were applied to simulate the 2013 severe winter regional hazes in East Asia and northern China at horizontal grid resolutions of 36 and 12 km, respectively, using the Multi-resolution Emission Inventory for China (MEIC).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the characteristics and sources of serious haze pollution in the southern Hebei area using the Mesoscale Modeling System Generation 5 (MM5) and the Models-3/Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ).

TL;DR: PM10 is the most important pollutant in Chinese cities, especially after the national sulfur dioxide (SO2) controls during the 11th Five Year Plan (FYP; 2006–2010), and more pollutants should be included in the API system to fully reflect the air quality status and guide future air pollution controls in Chinese Cities.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper reviewed and discussed the air pollution history and status of the Hebei Province using the governmental published Air Pollution Index (API), the academic observations by various scientific research groups and the long-term statistics of visibility and haze frequencies.

TL;DR: The sectoral contributions by the local and the surrounding regions to the fine particulate matter concentrations in the two representative cities, Shijiazhuang and Xingtai, were analyzed by applying the method of scenario analysis and will provide useful information to the policy making in the severe air pollution control in the Southern Hebei area.