Air quality improvement in a megacity: Implications from 2015 Beijing Parade Blue pollution control actions

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 31-46

  Xu, Wen ^a,k   Song, Wei ^b   Zhang, Yangyang ^a   Liu, Xuejun ^a   Zhang, Lin ^c   Zhao, Yuanhong ^c   Liu, Duanyang ^d   Tang, Aohan ^a   Yang, Daowei ^a   Wang, Dandan ^a   Wen, Zhang ^a   Pan, Yuepeng ^e   Fowler, David ^f   Collett, Jeffrey L ^g   Willem Erisman, Jan ^h   Goulding, Keith ⁱ   Li, Yi ^j   Zhang, Fusuo ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^e INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^f CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^h LOUIS BOLK INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

ⁱ ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^j Arizona Department of Environmental Quality   (United States)

^k RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION PLAN; AIR QUALITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION CONTROL; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MEGACITY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN POLLUTION;

BEIJING [BEIJING (ADS)]; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 85008881395     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-31-2017     Document Type: Article

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