"APEC blue": Secondary aerosol reductions from emission controls in Beijing

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Sun, Yele ^a   Wang, Zifa ^b   Wild, Oliver ^c   Xu, Weiqi ^d   Chen, Chen ^c   Fu, Pingqing ^g   Du, Wei ^a   Zhou, Libo ^b   Zhang, Qi ^a   Han, Tingting ^a   Wang, Qingqing ^b   Pan, Xiaole ^e   Zheng, Haitao ^d   Li, Jie ^f   Guo, Xiaofeng ^g   Liu, Jianguo ^b   Worsnop, Douglas R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f ANHUI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^g AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTION; BEIJING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84959017183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20668     Document Type: Article

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