Spatiotemporal variations of air pollution index in China's megacities

Chinese Journal of Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2788-2796

  Ren, Wan Xia ^a   Xue, Bing ^a   Zhang, Lin ^b   Ma, Zhi Xiao ^a,c   Geng, Yong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollution index (API); Environmental policy; Human natural relationship; Urban ecology; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MEGACITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN POLLUTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; CHONGQING; SHANGHAI; TIANJIN;

EID: 84906732431     PISSN: 10004890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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