Suppression of convective precipitation by elevated man-made aerosols is responsible for large-scale droughts in north China

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Sep 4;115(36):E8327-E8328. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1811295115. Epub 2018 Aug 21.

Zhen Li^{1

2}, Shaocai Yu^{3

2

4}, Liqiang Wang^{1

2}, Khalid Mehmood^{1

2}, Weiping Liu^{1

2}, Kiran Alapaty⁵

¹ Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecological Health, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People's Republic of China.
² Research Center for Air Pollution and Health, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People's Republic of China.
³ Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecological Health, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People's Republic of China; shaocaiyu@zju.edu.cn.
⁴ Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
⁵ Systems Exposure Division, National Exposure Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711.

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