Relative impact of emissions controls and meteorology on air pollution mitigation associated with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference in Beijing, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 571, Issue , 2016, Pages 1467-1476

  Wang, Yuqin ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a   Schauer, James Jay ^b   de Foy, Benjamin ^c   Guo, Bo ^d   Zhang, Yuanxun ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Saint Louis University   (United States)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

APEC; Control measures; Meteorology; PM2.5; PMF; Source apportionment

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; DUST; FACTORIZATION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

APEC; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; CONTROL MEASURES; ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; METEOROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION MODELS; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ASIAN PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION FORUM; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EMISSION CONTROL; HAZE; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION CONTROL; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOMASS BURNING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHINA; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DUST; EXHAUST GAS; GASES, FUMES, VAPORS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; INDUSTRY; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUAL OIL COMBUSTION; ROAD DUST; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; SOIL DUST; TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC RESTRICTION; AIR; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BEIJING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84989935398     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.215     Document Type: Article

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