Long-Term Trends in Visibility and at Chengdu, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Qiyuan ^a,b   Cao, Junji ^a,b   Tao, Jun ^c   Li, Nan ^b   Su, Xiaoli ^b   Chen, L W Antony ^d   Wang, Ping ^b   Shen, Zhenxing ^a   Liu, Suixin ^b   Dai, Wenting ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITRATE; SULFATE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHINA; COMBUSTION; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIGHT SCATTERING; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MOISTURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTION CONTROL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOPOGRAPHY; TREND STUDY; VISIBILITY;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84880429510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068894     Document Type: Article

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