PM2.5 spatiotemporal variations and the relationship with meteorological factors during 2013-2014 in Beijing, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Huang, Fangfang ^a   Li, Xia ^b   Wang, Chao ^a   Xu, Qin ^a   Wang, Wei ^a,c   Luo, Yanxia ^a   Tao, Lixin ^a   Gao, Qi ^a   Guo, Jin ^a   Chen, Sipeng ^a   Cao, Kai ^a   Liu, Long ^a   Gao, Ni ^a   Liu, Xiangtong ^a   Yang, Kun ^a   Yan, Aoshuang ^a,d   Guo, Xiuhua ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMIDITY; KRIGING; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MODEL; NIGHT; PRECIPITATION; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUNLIGHT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; WINTER; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84951034825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141642     Document Type: Article

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