主办单位:中国气象局沈阳大气环境研究所
国际刊号:ISSN 1673-503X
国内刊号:CN 21-1531/P

Journal of Meteorology and Environment ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 28-35.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-503X.2020.01.004

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Comparison of visibility in rainfall and haze-fog weather in Beijing using digital photographic visibility system

Kai NIE1,2(),Jing-li WANG2,*(),Ming LEI2,Wei HAN1,Jin-cheng LIU1   

  1. 1. Beijing Municipal Meteorological Observation Center, Beijing 100089, China
    2. Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100089, China
  • Received:2019-04-24 Online:2020-02-28 Published:2019-12-12
  • Contact: Jing-li WANG E-mail:47922584@qq.com;jlwang@ium.cn

Abstract:

Digital Photographic Visibility System (DPVS) is an instrument to measure atmospheric visibility based on a similar principle of artificial visual measurement.The observed visibility from the DPVS, a forward-scattered meter (PWD22), and an atmospheric transmissometer (LT31) under rainfall and haze-fog weather events were compared in Beijing from March to August of 2017.The results indicated that visibility has an obvious negative correlation with relative humidity, particle matter concentration, and precipitation particles.Under low visibility conditions, the variations of visibility observed from three instruments are basically consistent with each other in spite of small differences.Visibility observed from the DPVS has smaller discreteness and better stability under moderate rainfall, heavy rainfall, rainstorm, and moderate haze-fog events.However, the visibility observed from the DPVS has large uncertainty during the transition period between daytime and nighttime, which should be improved by optimizing the algorithm in the future.

Key words: Digital photographic visibility system (DPVS), Rainfall weather, Haze-fog weather

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