{"id":4460,"date":"2017-05-07T02:13:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T18:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2020-07-15T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T03:56:51","slug":"wind-blows-direction-shanghais-pollution-5-times-likely-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/blog\/wind-blows-direction-shanghais-pollution-5-times-likely-toxic\/","title":{"rendered":"When Wind Blows From This Direction, Shanghai&#8217;s Pollution Is 5 Times More Likely to Be Toxic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Quek from Greenpeace analyzed how\u00a0PM2.5 changes with depending on which way the wind is blowing\u00a0in Shanghai:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4461 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wind-Effect-Shanghai-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wind-Effect-Shanghai-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wind-Effect-Shanghai.png 514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0data is simple. When\u00a0the wind is coming from the industrialized areas to the\u00a0west of Shanghai,\u00a0toxic air pollution is more likely.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4462 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wind-Shanghai-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wind-Shanghai-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wind-Shanghai.png 254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the wind blows in from the ocean, bad air days are much less likely.<\/p>\n<p>In Beijing, <a href=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/blog\/%E5%BD%93%E9%A3%8E%E4%BB%8E%E4%B8%9C%E8%BE%B9%E5%90%B9%E6%9D%A5%EF%BC%8C%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E7%9A%84%E7%A9%BA%E6%B0%94%E8%B4%A8%E9%87%8F%E4%BE%BF%E4%BC%9A%E5%A5%BD%E8%BD%AC\/\">the situation is different<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Calvin Quek (Twitter @clearroads), who did\u00a0the original\u00a0analysis and made the graphs here.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvin Quek from Greenpeace analyzed how\u00a0PM2.5 changes with depending on which way the wind is blowing\u00a0in Shanghai: The\u00a0data is simple. When\u00a0the wind is coming from the industrialized areas to the\u00a0west of Shanghai,\u00a0toxic air pollution is more likely. When the wind blows in from the ocean, bad air days are much &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"When Wind Blows From This Direction, Shanghai&#8217;s Pollution Is 5 Times More Likely to Be Toxic\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/blog\/wind-blows-direction-shanghais-pollution-5-times-likely-toxic\/#more-4460\" aria-label=\"Read more about When Wind Blows From This Direction, Shanghai&#8217;s Pollution Is 5 Times More Likely to Be Toxic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,261],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-weather","tag-wind"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11499,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/11499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}