Detecting the causality influence of individual meteorological factors on local PM 2.5 concentration in the Jing-Jin-Ji region

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Chen, Ziyue ^a,b   Cai, Jun ^c   Gao, Bingbo ^d   Xu, Bing ^a,c   Dai, Shuang ^c   He, Bin ^a   Xie, Xiaoming ^d  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; METEOROLOGY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 85010919137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep40735     Document Type: Article

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