Sulfate-nitrate-ammonium aerosols over China: Response to 2000-2015 emission changes of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and ammonia

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2635-2652

  Wang, Y ^a   Zhang, Q Q ^a   He, K ^b   Zhang, Q ^a   Chai, L ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; NITRATE; NITROGEN OXIDES; SULFATE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

CHINA;

EID: 84874883123     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-2635-2013     Document Type: Article

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