Air quality and its response to satellite-derived urban form in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 75, Issue , 2017, Pages 297-306

  She, Qiannan ^a   Peng, Xia ^a   Xu, Qian ^a   Long, Lingbo ^a   Wei, Ning ^a   Liu, Min ^a   Han, Ji ^a   Xiang, Weining ^a   Jia, Wenxiao ^b   Zhou, Taoye ^c  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shanghai Pudong New Area Environmental Monitoring Station   (China)

Author keywords

Buffer distances; Landscape metrics; Urban air pollution; Urban form; Yangtze River Delta

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; COUPLINGS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLLUTION; RIVERS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

BUFFER DISTANCES; LANDSCAPE METRICS; URBAN AIR POLLUTION; URBAN FORM; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BUFFER ZONE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LANDSCAPE CHANGE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PUBLIC HEALTH; SATELLITE DATA; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN POLLUTION;

CHINA; JIANGSU; YANGTZE DELTA; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 85008690041     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.12.045     Document Type: Article

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