This research is supported by the National High Technology Development Project (863) of China (Grant No. 2002AA639500); the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 032212); National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2005CB422301) ; Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University ( NCET-05-0591 ).
Based on the atmospheric horizontal visibility data from forty-seven observational stations along the eastern coast of China near the Taiwan Strait and simultaneous NOAA/AVHRR multichannel satellite data during Januar...