The impacts of urbanization on air quality over the Pearl River Delta in winter: Roles of urban land use and emission distribution

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-39

  Chen, Bin ^a   Yang, Shuai ^b   Xu, Xiang De ^a   Zhang, Wei ^c,d,e  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d East China Normal University   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION INVENTORY; LAND USE CHANGE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION; WINTER;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 85027935661     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0982-1     Document Type: Article

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