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Anthropogenic aerosols are a potential cause for migration of the summer monsoon rain belt in China

Shaocai Yu, Pengfei Li, Liqiang Wang, Peng Wang, Si Wang, Shucheng Chang, Weiping Liu, and Kiran Alapaty
PNAS April 19, 2016 113 (16) E2209-E2210; first published March 22, 2016; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601104113
Shaocai Yu
aKey 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;
bResearch Center for Air Pollution and Health, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People’s Republic of China;
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  • For correspondence: shaocaiyu@zju.edu.cn alapaty.kiran@epa.gov
Pengfei Li
aKey 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;
bResearch Center for Air Pollution and Health, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People’s Republic of China;
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Liqiang Wang
aKey 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;
bResearch Center for Air Pollution and Health, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People’s Republic of China;
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Peng Wang
aKey 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;
bResearch Center for Air Pollution and Health, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People’s Republic of China;
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Si Wang
aKey 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;
bResearch Center for Air Pollution and Health, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People’s Republic of China;
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Shucheng Chang
aKey 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;
bResearch Center for Air Pollution and Health, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People’s Republic of China;
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Weiping Liu
aKey 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;
bResearch Center for Air Pollution and Health, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People’s Republic of China;
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Kiran Alapaty
cSystems Exposure Division, National Exposure Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
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  • For correspondence: shaocaiyu@zju.edu.cn alapaty.kiran@epa.gov

This Letter has a Reply and related content. Please see:

  • Warming-induced northwestward migration of the East Asian monsoon rain belt from the Last Glacial Maximum to the mid-Holocene - October 12, 2015
  • Reply to Yu et al.: Global temperature change as the ultimate driver of the shift in the summer monsoon rain belt in East Asia - March 22, 2016
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vol. 113 no. 16 E2209-E2210
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601104113
PubMed: 
27006506

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue April 19, 2016.
  • Published first March 22, 2016.

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Author Information

  1. Shaocai Yua,b,1,
  2. Pengfei Lia,b,
  3. Liqiang Wanga,b,
  4. Peng Wanga,b,
  5. Si Wanga,b,
  6. Shucheng Changa,b,
  7. Weiping Liua,b, and
  8. Kiran Alapatyc,1
  1. aKey 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. bResearch Center for Air Pollution and Health, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, People’s Republic of China;
  3. cSystems Exposure Division, National Exposure Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Footnotes

  • ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: shaocaiyu{at}zju.edu.cn or alapaty.kiran{at}epa.gov.
  • Author contributions: S.Y. and K.A. designed research; S.Y., P.L., L.W., P.W., S.W., S.C., W.L., and K.A. performed research; S.Y., P.L., L.W., P.W., S.W., S.C., and W.L. analyzed data; and S.Y., P.L., W.L., and K.A. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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