Water spray geoengineering to clean air pollution for mitigating haze in China's cities

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 109-116

  Yu, Shaocai ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Geoengineering approach; Haze; Megacities; Precipitation scavenging

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION;

CLEAN AIR; ECONOMIC EXPANSION; GEOENGINEERING; GEOENGINEERING APPROACH; HAZE; INDUSTRIAL GROWTH; MEGACITIES; PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING; SCAVENGING COEFFICIENTS; WATER SPRAYS;

WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84893904225     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-013-0444-0     Document Type: Review

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