A paradox for air pollution controlling in China revealed by "aPEC Blue" and "parade Blue"

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Liu, Haoran ^a,b   Liu, Cheng ^a,b,c   Xie, Zhouqing ^a,b,c   Li, Ying ^d   Huang, Xin ^e   Wang, Shanshan ^f   Xu, Jin ^b   Xie, Pinhua ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

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EID: 84989917920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep34408     Document Type: Article

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