Long-term trends of ambient particulate matter emission source contributions and the accountability of control strategies in Hong Kong over 1998-2008

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 21-31

  Yuan, Zibing ^a   Yadav, Varun ^b   Turner, Jay R ^b   Louie, Peter K K ^c   Lau, Alexis Kai Hon ^a,d  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT   (Hong Kong)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Control strategy; Hong Kong; Long term trend; Particulate matter; Positive Matrix Factorization

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CHEMICAL SPECIATION; EMISSION CONTROL; FACTORIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NITRATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; VEHICLES;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; HONG-KONG; LONG-TERM TREND; PARTICULATE MATTER; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

NITRATE; SULFATE;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ESTIMATION METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MATRIX; MONITORING; NITRATE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; SULFATE;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EXHAUST GAS; GOVERNMENT; HONG KONG; MOTOR VEHICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84879412275     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.09.026     Document Type: Article

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