THE GREAT LONDON SMOG - EFFECTS AND REPERCUSSIONS

摘要

In the winters of the late 19th and 20th centuries when stationary high pressure systems settled over Western Europe, wind speeds fell and temperature inversions formed. Pollutant concentrations increased and fog became widespread in Britain, with London severely affected by these conditions. Its fogs were a backdrop to all that was magical or evil about the city. It was widely known that death rate increased in these smogs and London's particular became central to Sherlock Holmes and an inspiration to painters such as Claude Monet, Andre Derain and Yoshio Markino.