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Abstract:New ambient air quality standards were released in 2012 and implemented in 2013 with real time monitoring data publication of six atmospheric pollutants: particulate matter (PM)2.5, PM10, O3, SO2, NO2 and CO. According to the new standards, Beijing began to publicize real-time monitoring data of 35 monitoring stations in 2013. In this study, real time concentrations of all six atmospheric pollutants of all 35 monitoring stations were collected from September 2014 to August 2015 to investigate the spatial and temporal pattern of the air quality and atmospheric pollutants. By comparing the annual and seasonal variations of all six pollutants' concentrations, it was found that particulate matter, especially PM2.5, is still the major contributor to the deterioration of air quality in Beijing. Although the NO2 and O3 concentrations of some stations were still high under certain circumstances, their contributions to air quality index (AQI) were not comparable to those of PM2.5 and PM10. SO2 and CO concentrations have dropped to well below the qualification standards. Winter and autumn were the most polluted seasons for all pollutants except O3, whose concentrations are higher in summer. South and southeast stations were the most polluted compared with the rest of the stations, especially for particulate matter. Wind profile analysis with heavy pollution situations indicates that low speed southwest or east wind situations have the higher possibility of heavy pollution, suggesting that it is highly possible that long-range transportation of air pollutants from south or east neighboring provinces played an important role in the worsening air conditions in Beijing. OPEN ACCESSAtmosphere 2015, 6 1754

The Earth's dynamic figure parameters, namely the principal moments of inertia and dynamic ellipticities of the whole Earth, the fluid outer core and the solid inner core, are fundamental parameters for geodetic, geophysical and astronomical studies. This study aims to re-estimate the mass and the dynamic figure parameters of the Earth on the basis of some global gravity models (EGM2008, EIGEN-6C and EIGEN-6C2) recently released with unprecedented accuracies, as well as an improved value of the gravitational constant G recommended by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA). With the potential coefficients of EGM2008, EIGEN-6C and EIGEN-6C2 rescaled to be consistent with the IAU (International Astronomical Union) and IAG (International Association of Geodesy) numerical standards, and other values of relevant parameters also being consistent with those numerical standards, we have obtained consistent estimates of the dynamic figure parameters of the stratified Earth using the theory described in Chen and Shen (J Geophys Res 115:B12419 2010). Our preferred principal moments of inertia for the whole Earth are A = (80,085.1 ± 9.6) × 10 33 kg m 2 , B = (80,086.8 ± 9.6) × 10 33 kg m 2 , and C = (80,349.0 ± 9.6) × 10 33 kg m 2 , respectively, the accu-