Explaining the spatiotemporal variation of fine particle number concentrations over Beijing and surrounding areas in an air quality model with aerosol microphysics

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 231, Issue , 2017, Pages 1302-1313

  Chen, Xueshun ^a   Wang, Zifa ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Chen, Huansheng ^a   Hu, Min ^b   Yang, Wenyi ^a   Wang, Zhe ^a   Ge, Baozhu ^a   Wang, Dawei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

NAQPMS+APM; Nucleation; Particle number size distribution; Primary emission

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR QUALITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ACCUMULATION MODES; FINE-PARTICLES; NAQPMS+APM; PARTICLE EMISSIONS; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE NUMBER SIZE DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY EMISSIONS; PRIMARY PARTICLES; SECONDARY PARTICLES; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

NUCLEATION;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; HAZE; NUCLEATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HAZE; SEASON; SIMULATION; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BEIJING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS;

EID: 85029187151     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.08.103     Document Type: Article

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