Research interests
mesoscale numerical simulation;mesoscale predictability;data assimilation;air pollution simulation
Representative publications
Bei, N., L. Zhao, J. Wu, et al., 2018: Impacts of sea-land and mountain-valley circulations on the air pollution
in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH): A case study, Environmental Pollution, 234, 429-438.
Bei, N., L. Zhao, B. Xiao, N. Meng, and T. Feng, 2017: Impacts of local circulations on the wintertime air
pollution in the Guanzhong Basin, China, Science of the Total Environment, 592, 373-390.
Bei, N., G. Li, Huang, Huang, J. Cao, N. Meng, T. Feng, S. Liu, T. Zhang, Q. Zhang, and L. T. Molina, 2016: Typical synoptic situations and their impacts on the wintertime air pollution in the Guanzhong basin, China, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 7373-7387.
Bei, N., B. Xiao, N. Meng, and T. Feng, 2016: Critical role of meteorological conditions in a persistent haze episode in the Guanzhong basin, China, Science of the Total Environment, 550, 273–284.
Bei, N., G. Li, Z. Meng, Y. Weng, M. Zavala, and L. T. Molina, 2014: Impacts of using an ensemble Kalman filter on air quality simulations along the California–Mexico border region during Cal–Mex 2010 Field Campaign, Sci. Total Environ., 499, 141–153.
Bei, N.and F. Zhang, 2014: Mesoscale predictability of moist baroclinic waves: Variable and scale-dependent error growth,Adv. Atmos. Sci., 31(5), 995–1008.
Bei, N., G. Li, M. Zavala, et al., 2013: Meteorological overview and plume transport patterns during Cal-Mex
2010, Atmos.Environ., 70:477–489.
Bei, N., G. Li, and L. T. Molina, 2012a: Uncertainties in SOA simulations due to meteorological uncertainties in Mexico City during MILAGRO-2006 field campaign, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 11295–11308.
Bei, N., F. Zhang, and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2012b: Ensemble-based observation targeting for improving ozone prediction in Houston and the surrounding area, Pure Appl. Geophys.,169, 539–554.
Bei, N., W. Lei, M.Zavala, and L. T. Molina, 2010: Ozone predictabilities due to meteorological uncertainties in Mexico City Basin using ensemble forecasts, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 6295–6309.
Bei, N., B. de Foy, W. Lei, M. Zavala, and L. T. Molina, 2008: Using 3DVAR data assimilation system to improve ozone simulations in the Mexico City basin,Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 7353–7366.
Bei, N., and F. Zhang, 2007: Impacts of Initial Error Scale and Amplitude on the Mesoscale Predictability of Heavy Precipitation along the Mei-Yu Front of China,Quart.J.Roy.Meteor.Soc., 133, 83–99.
Bei, N., S.Zhao and S. Gao, 2002:Numerical simulation of a heavy rainfall of a heavy rainfall event in China
during july 1998, Meteorol Atmos Phys, 80, 153-164.