Assessment of air quality improvement effect under the National Total Emission Control Program during the Twelfth National Five-Year Plan in China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 74-81

  Xue, Wenbo ^a,b   Wang, Jinnan ^b   Niu, Hao ^b   Yang, Jintian ^b   Han, Baoping ^a   Lei, Yu ^b   Chen, Hanli ^b   Jiang, Chunlai ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING   (China)

Author keywords

CMAQ; Emission control in China; National standard; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; ANNUAL AVERAGE; ANNUAL MEAN; CENSUS DATA; CMAQ; COMMUNITY MULTI-SCALE AIR QUALITIES; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; GUIDELINE VALUES; MODEL-BASED OPC; NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS; NATIONAL STANDARD; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; REDUCTION TARGETS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AIR QUALITY; EMISSION CONTROL; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

SULFUR DIOXIDE;

NITRATE; SULFATE;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ANNUAL REVIEW; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA PROCESSING; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GUIDELINE; NATIONAL STRATEGY; NITRATE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SIMULATION; STANDARD (REGULATION); SULFATE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; CHINA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHINA;

EID: 84871393192     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.11.053     Document Type: Article

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