Satellite measurements oversee China's sulfur dioxide emission reductions from coal-fired power plants

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Siwen ^a,b,d   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Martin, Randall V ^b,c   Philip, Sajeev ^b   Liu, Fei ^a   Li, Meng ^a   Jiang, Xujia ^a   He, Kebin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

OMI; power plants; SO2 emissions

Indexed keywords

COAL; COAL FUELED FURNACES; EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; GAS PLANTS; MINING; POWER PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; FLUE GAS DESULFURIZATION(FGD); GAUSSIAN FITTING; OMI; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SULFUR DIOXIDE EMISSIONS;

FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS;

COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; EMISSION CONTROL; GAUSSIAN METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFUR EMISSION;

CHINA;

EID: 84948824528     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/114015     Document Type: Article

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