Arctic Sea Ice Decline Intensified Haze Pollution in Eastern China |
Figure 1 Time series of winter haze day WHD; in red and preceding autumn Arctic sea ice extent ASI; in blue anomalies, with solid and dashed lines for the original and detrended series respectively. The WHD is defined as the number of site-observed haze days during December-January-February in eastern China south of 40#cod#x000b0;N 20-40#cod#x000b0;N, 109-122.5#cod#x000b0;E, and the autumn ASI is the averaged sea ice extent for September-October-November. The anomalies are computed with respect to the period 1981-2010. |
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