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Hotspots of interdisciplinary researches in atmospheric, environmental, and medical sciences in 2020

  • YIN Zhicong ,
  • LI Yuyan ,
  • DUAN Mingkeng ,
  • WANG Huijun
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  • 1. Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change(ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters(CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China;
    2. Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519080, China;
    3. Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

Received date: 2020-12-28

  Revised date: 2021-01-04

  Online published: 2021-03-10

Abstract

In 2020, atmospheric science underwent deep cross integrations with environmental protection and medical sciences. A series of research results were achieved. This paper introduces the research focuses such as climate change, COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution, large-scale wildfires and climate prediction, and reviews their interdisciplinary results.

Cite this article

YIN Zhicong , LI Yuyan , DUAN Mingkeng , WANG Huijun . Hotspots of interdisciplinary researches in atmospheric, environmental, and medical sciences in 2020[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2021 , 39(1) : 88 -96 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2021.01.006

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