Increasing external effects negate local efforts to control ozone air pollution: A case study of Hong Kong and implications for other chinese cities

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 10769-10775

  Xue, Likun ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Louie, Peter K K ^b   Luk, Connie W Y ^b   Blake, Donald R ^c   Xu, Zheng ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; OZONE; QUALITY CONTROL;

AIR QUALITY MONITORING STATIONS; CHINESE CITIES; CONTROL POLICY; DISTANT SOURCE; GROUND-LEVEL OZONE; OBSERVATION-BASED MODEL; REGIONAL EFFECTS; SECONDARY POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; OZONE; AIR POLLUTANT;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OZONE; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION POLICY; QUALITY CONTROL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHINA; CITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HONG KONG; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SEASON; TREND STUDY; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; CITIES; HONG KONG; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OZONE; SEASONS;

EID: 84916609741     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503278g     Document Type: Article

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