Reduction in NOx emission trends over China: Regional and seasonal variations

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 12912-12919

  Gu, Dasa ^a   Wang, Yuhang ^a   Smeltzer, Charles ^a   Liu, Zhen ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC SLOWDOWNS; EMISSION CONTROL MEASURES; NUMBER OF FACTORS; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

EMISSION CONTROL; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

NITROGEN OXIDES;

NITROGEN OXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EMISSION CONTROL; MEGACITY; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; REGIONAL PATTERN; RURAL AREA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIGRATION; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND STUDY; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CITY; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXHAUST GAS; GEOGRAPHY; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; TIME;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHINA; CITIES; COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC RECESSION; GEOGRAPHY; NITROGEN OXIDES; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84888240413     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es401727e     Document Type: Article

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