The impacts of firework burning at the Chinese Spring Festival on air quality: Insights of tracers, source evolution and aging processes

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2167-2184

  Kong, S F ^a   Li, L ^a   Li, X X ^a   Yin, Y ^a   Chen, K ^a   Liu, D T ^c   Yuan, L ^a   Zhang, Y J ^a   Shan, Y P ^a   Ji, Y Q ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HAZE; HEALTH IMPACT; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE MATTER; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TRACER;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU];

EID: 84924059892     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-2167-2015     Document Type: Article

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