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Meteorologists rebuke 'China role' in snowy U.S. weather   

气象专家驳美媒报道:美低温天气与中国空气污染无直接关系

针对美国媒体“中国污染可能导致美国寒冷多雪冬季”的相关报道,国家气候中心、中国气象局气象科学研究院12日发布消息表示,上述言论无科学依据。 [查看全文]
2015-03-13 14:08 Ecns.cn Web Editor: Mo Hong'e
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The Lincoln Memorial is seen after snowfall in Washington D.C.,the United States, on March 6, 2015. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu)

The Lincoln Memorial is seen after snowfall in Washington D.C.,the United States, on March 6, 2015. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu)

(ECNS) - Experts at the National Climate Centre and the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences say blaming air pollution in China for America's cold snowy winter is unscientific fear-mongering.

Some physicists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have said that China's air pollution might be a contributing factor to this year's "snowpocalypse" in Boston and bitter cold snaps in New York and Washington, according to U.S. media reports.

However, analysis by experts from the China Meteorological Administration shows no direct relationship between Chinese air pollution and America's snowy weather. They attribute it mainly to terrain, the lake-effect, and the country's position in a stable low pressure zone.

Air pollution and emissions over Southeast Asia may have some impact on parts of the US, but this is limited, according to a study in the 2010 Intercontinental Transfer Evaluation Report by the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TFHTAP).

That report says the annual average ozone concentrations across much of the US are 40ppbv, and the effect of ozone concentration and precursor gas emissions from Southeast Asia are only 0.3-2.05ppbv.

Only 1.3 percent of East Asia's aerosols can be transmitted to North America, a figure determined by the circulation and life cycle of the aerosols, which suggests there is no direct relationship between China's air pollution and the winter weather in the U.S., meteorologists said.

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