About the Authors

Junfang Zhao

Affiliations Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xiaodong Yan

yxd@bnu.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), College Of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jianping Guo

Affiliation Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Gensuo Jia

Affiliation Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XDY. Performed the experiments: JFZ. Analyzed the data: JFZ. Wrote the paper: JFZ JPG GSJ.