The washout effects of rainfall on atmospheric particulate pollution in two Chinese cities

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 215, Issue , 2016, Pages 195-202

  Guo, Ling Chuan ^a,b   Zhang, Yonghui ^a   Lin, Hualiang ^a   Zeng, Weilin ^a   Liu, Tao ^a   Xiao, Jianpeng ^a   Rutherford, Shannon ^c   You, Jing ^b   Ma, Wenjun ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Particulate pollution; Rainfall; Threshold; Washout

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL;

AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICULATE; EFFECTS OF RAINFALLS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; PARTICULATE POLLUTION; RAINFALL THRESHOLDS; THRESHOLD; WASHOUT;

RAIN;

RAIN; AIR; DUST; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DUST; HAZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; THRESHOLD;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WASHOUT EFFECT; ANALYSIS; CITY; DUST; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU; SHAANXI; XIAN;

AIR; CHINA; CITIES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; RAIN;

EID: 84969265325     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.05.003     Document Type: Article

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