Climate Change Research ›› 2025, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (1): 56-68.doi: 10.12006/j.issn.1673-1719.2024.201

Special Issue: 创刊20周年纪念专栏

• 20th Anniversary of Climate Change Research • Previous Articles     Next Articles

A review of the impacts of climate change on severe air pollution events

QIN Zhuo-Fan(), LIAO Hong(), DAI Hui-Bin   

  1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control/Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology/School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • Received:2024-07-31 Revised:2024-10-29 Online:2025-01-30 Published:2024-12-26

Abstract:

Severe air pollution events by fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) are the target of air pollution control in China. This paper reviews the research progress on the impacts of climate change on severe pollution events of PM2.5 and O3 in China in recent years. The results show that severe PM2.5 pollution mainly occurs under stagnant weather conditions, while severe O3 pollution mainly occurs under conditions of high temperature and low humidity. Climate change (including both anthropogenic global warming and the natural variability in the climate system) affects the local meteorological conditions that are conducive to severe pollution through changing large-scale circulation and regional circulation pattern. At present, the research on the impacts of climate change on severe PM2.5 pollution is quite advanced, with the capability of identifying the impacts of climate factors or global warming on typical severe pollution events or the long-term trends of such events. However, there are few studies on the impacts of climate change on severe ozone pollution.

Key words: Particulate matter (PM2.5), Ozone (O3), Severe air pollution events, Climate change

京ICP备11008704号-4
Copyright © Climate Change Research, All Rights Reserved.
Tel: (010)58995171 E-mail: accr@cma.gov.cn
Powered by Beijing Magtech Co. Ltd