Fog Formation in Cold Season in Ji’nan, China: Case Analyses with Application of HYSPLIT Model by Xinfeng Wang, Jianmin Chen

“…Fog events almost happened every year in cold season in North China Plain. In this study, hybrid single-particle Lagrangian integrated trajectory (HYSPLIT) model was applied to analyze the formation of four fog events occurring in Ji’nan, China, during the period from March 2012 to February 2014. …”
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Characteristics of Spring Phenological Changes in China over the Past 50 Years by Junhu Dai, Huanjiong Wang, Quansheng Ge

“…The linear trends in spring phenophases were −0.18, −0.28, −0.21, −0.04, and −0.14 days/year for the Northeast China Plain, the North China Plain, the Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and South China, respectively. …”
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Spatial Characteristics and Influence of Topography and Synoptic Systems on PM2.5 in the Eastern Monsoon Region of China by Shengli Zhu, Zhaowen Wang, Kai Qu, Jun Xu, Ji Zhang, Haiyi Yang, Wenxin Wang, Xiao Sui, Min Wei, Houfeng Liu

“…For IT, three clusters were ascertained, and the severe PM2.5 pollution area was in the central and southern of the North China Plain. This study provided a scientific basis for the joint prevention of PM2.5 pollution based on topographic and meteorological characteristics in Eastern China.…”
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Recent Decreasing Trends in Surface PM2.5 over East Asia in the Winter-Spring Season: Different Responses to Emissions and Meteorology between Upwind and Downwind Regions by Young-Hee Ryu, Seung-Ki Min, Alma Hodzic

“…This system accurately reproduced the monthly means, daily variations, and vertical profiles of PM2.5 during winter and spring over the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA) in South Korea and the North China Plain (NCP) and Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in China. …”
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Modeling of winter wheat yield prediction based on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence by machine learning methods by Minxue Zheng, Han Hu, Yue Niu, Qiu Shen, Feng Jia, Xiaolei Geng

“…Using multiple statistical machine learning (ML) methods, this study investigated the predictive abilities of SIF and NIRv by combining climate data to predict winter wheat yields in five provinces in the North China Plain (NCP). Results showed that: (a) SIF outperformed NIRv in predicting winter wheat yields. …”
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Characteristics and Sources of Organic Aerosol Markers in PM2.5 by Zheng Li, Ruiwen Zhou, Yuanyuan Li, Min Chen, Yachen Wang, Tonglin Huang, Yanan Yi, Zhanfang Hou, Jingjing Meng, Li Yan

“…Abstract To investigate the molecular compositions, sources, and evolution processes of organic aerosols (OAs), PM2.5 samples in wintertime were collected in Jinan, a typically polluted city in the North China Plain (NCP). The concentrations of PM2.5, carbonaceous species, and organic components (e.g., sugars, fatty acids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and oxygenated-PAHs (OPAHs)) in haze episodes were 1.8–2.7 times higher than those in clean episodes. …”
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The impact of nutrient deficiency on the structure of soil microbial communities within a double-cropping system by Rulan Yang, Zheng Sun, Yu Gong, Peng Zhou, Xinping Zhang, Jie Wang, Qiang Dong, Fei Gao

“…In the North China Plain, it is common for farmers to regularly clear crop residues from their fields. …”
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Effect of Pollution Level on Size Distributions and Mixing State of Ambient Black Carbon Particles in an Urban Area during Wintertime by Kangning Li, XiaoFei Wang, Xiaohui Lu, Hong Chen, Xin Yang

“…Trajectory analyses of the air masses showed that they usually originated in local areas or on the North China Plain during haze episodes but mostly migrated from the East China Sea during clean episodes. …”
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Multi-type Air Pollutant Emission Inventory of Non-road Mobile Sources in China for the Period 1990–2017 by Xianbao Shen, Lei Kong, Yue Shi, Xinyue Cao, Xin Li, Bobo Wu, Hanyu Zhang, Zhiliang Yao

“…Additionally, the spatial distribution of the investigated pollutants revealed high concentrations on the North China Plain and in the Southeast China coastal area. …”
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Quantifying the sources and health risks of groundwater nitrate via dual NO isotopes and Monte Carlo simulations in a developed planting-breeding area by Jianwei Liu, Shuo Qiao, Shilong Zhao, Hui Chen, Yong Wu, Donghao Li, Ping Liu, Ling Li

“…Here, we explored the key sources and potential health risks of NO3− in a typical planting-breeding area in the North China Plain based on dual stable isotopes and Monte Carlo simulations. …”
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Refining δ15N isotopic fingerprints of local NOx for accurate source identification of nitrate in PM2.5 by Hao Xiao, Qinkai Li, Shiyuan Ding, Wenjing Dai, Gaoyang Cui, Xiaodong Li

“…The results indicate that the isotopic fingerprints of the six types of NOx sources in Tianjin are indicative of the regional characteristics of China, particularly the North China Plain. The Bayesian isotope mixing (MixSIAR) model demonstrated that coal combustion, biomass burning, and vehicle exhaust collectively contributed more than 60 %, dominating the sources of NO3– during sampling periods in Tianjin. …”
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Mind the blind spot: lessons from fungal community sequencing in a plant–soil feedback experiment by Mengshuai Liu, Jose G. Maciá-Vicente, Jasper van Ruijven, Wopke van der Werf, Zhenling Cui, Fusuo Zhang, Chunxu Song, Liesje Mommer

“…Methods We performed a PSF experiment, with different soils originating from three cropping systems in the North China Plain and three crop species (wheat, maize, soybean) in a full factorial design. …”
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Vertical and spatial differences in ozone formation sensitivities under different ozone pollution levels in eastern Chinese cities by Zhuang Wang, Hao Zhang, Chune Shi, Xianguang Ji, Yizhi Zhu, Congzi Xia, Xiaoyun Sun, Meng Zhang, Xinfeng Lin, Shaowei Yan, Yuan Zhou, Chengzhi Xing, Yujia Chen, Cheng Liu

“…Spatially, HCHO in the North China Plain and middle–lower Yangtze River Plain was significantly increased on ozone exceedance days, while the NO2 concentration in the southeast hills was increased on ozone exceedance days. …”
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Quasi-weekly oscillation of regional PM_2.5 transport over China driven by the synoptic-scale disturbance of the East Asian winter monsoon circulation by Y. Bai, T. Zhao, K. Meng, Y. Zhou, J. Xiong, X. Sun, L. Shen, Y. Yue, Y. Zhu, W. Hu, J. Yao

“…The source–receptor relationship in regional transport of PM<span class="inline-formula">_2.5</span> is identified with the 2 d lag effect of the North China Plain, as the upwind source region, on the PM<span class="inline-formula">_2.5</span> pollution change in the Twain-Hu Basin, as the downwind receptor region in central China. …”
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Soil Inversion with Subsoiling Increases Cotton Yield Through Improving Soil Properties and Root Growth by Pengcheng Li, Shulin Wang, Weina Feng, Helin Dong, Cangsong Zheng, Miao Sun, Jingjing Shao, Zhenggui Zhang, Zhanlei Pan, Jian Wang, Guilan Sun, Junhong Li, Yaopeng Zhang, Wenqi Zhao, Menghua Zhai, Zhanbiao Wang

“…The results suggest that soil inversion with subsoiling is a continuously effective tillage practice for increasing the output of cotton in the North China Plain.…”
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Current Challenges in Visibility Improvement in Sichuan Basin by Gang Zhao, Min Hu, Zirui Zhang, Lizi Tang, Dongjie Shang, Jie Ren, Xiangxinyue Meng, Yuan Zhang, Miao Feng, Yina Luo, Shishi Yang, Qinwen Tan, Danlin Song, Song Guo, Zhijun Wu, Limin Zeng, Yuanhang Zhang, Shaodong Xie

“…Abstract The visibility in the Sichuan Basin (SB) was worse than that in the North China Plain (NCP) for the same level of PM2.5. One well‐known reason is that the aerosol extinction enhancement due to hygroscopic growth in the SB was stronger than that in the NCP because the relative humidity (RH) in the SB was higher than that in the NCP. …”
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Wireless Sensor Network of Typical Land Surface Parameters and Its Preliminary Applications for Coarse-Resolution Remote Sensing Pixel by Baocheng Dou, Jianguang Wen, Xiuhong Li, Qiang Liu, Jingjing Peng, Qing Xiao, Zhigang Zhang, Yong Tang, Xiaodan Wu, Xingwen Lin, Dongqin You, Hua Li, Li Li, Yelu Zeng, Erli Cai, Jialin Zhang

“…In this paper, a distributed sensor network system named CPP-WSN was established to capture the spatial and temporal variation of land surface parameters at coarse-resolution satellite pixel scale around the Huailai Remote Sensing Station, which locates in the North China Plain. The system consists of three subnetworks that are RadNet, SoilNet, and VegeNet. …”
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