Formation and dominant factors of haze pollution over Beijing and its peripheral areas in winter

Atmospheric Pollution Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 528-538

  Feng, Xiao ^a   Li, Qi ^a   Zhu, Yajie ^a   Wang, Jingjie ^a   Liang, Heming ^a   Xu, Ruofeng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Domestic heating; Particle transportation; Spatiotemporal analysis; Temperature inversion; Urban air pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903316347     PISSN: 13091042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5094/APR.2014.062     Document Type: Article

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