Sentence examples for smog events from inspiring English sources

The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the huge winter smog events of 2012/13 in Northeastern cities marked a watershed in communication about this problem.

A questionnaire survey of 1141 randomly sampled individuals in a typical PM2.5-polluted Chinese city was designed to establish smog concerns and behavior changes during smog events.

In the late fall of 1952, a combination of coal-driven furnace smoke, fog, and cold conditions created one of the deadliest smog events in the history of modern London.

Dr Sean Semple, of the University of Aberdeen, who analysed the results, said: "When smoking takes place at home, the indoor air pollution levels are comparable with those measured during major industrial smog events in cities like Beijing and Singapore.

Last but not least, the apparent return of extreme smog events this winter also calls into question the government's preferred narrative, and I will outline some of the current questions that warrant further research on this topic.

As an international megacity with a population of over 20 million, Beijing has been suffering from frequent smog events in recent years.

During the period of January 10 14, 2013, the city of Beijing, along with the rest of the mideastern region of China experienced a massive, severe smog event.

Here we employed metagenomic methods to analyze the microbial composition of Beijing's PM pollutants during a severe January smog event.

The Meuse valley fog of 1930 [ 3], the Donora smog incident of 1948 [ 4], and the London great smog event of 1952 [ 5] were the foundation to create a legislation regarding to air pollutants.

In a recent study, Cao et al. (2014) used metagenomics to analyze the microbial composition of air samples during a severe smog event in China and successfully identified various airborne microorganisms including double-stranded DNA viruses.

These results, as well as the high weight ratio of PM2.5 to PM10 (∼0.7), suggested that secondary formation of fine particles likely led to the high PM concentrations during this smog event.