Spatial patterns and temporal variations of six criteria air pollutants during 2015 to 2017 in the city clusters of Sichuan Basin, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 624, Issue , 2018, Pages 540-557

  Zhao, Suping ^a,b   Yu, Ye ^a   Yin, Daiying ^a   Qin, Dahe ^a   He, Jianjun ^c   Dong, Longxiang ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention   (China)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Meteorological conditions; Ozone; Sichuan Basin; Spatial temporal variation

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY STANDARDS; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

CRITERIA AIR POLLUTANTS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; OZONE CONCENTRATION; OZONE POLLUTION; PM 2.5; SICHUAN BASIN; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SPATIAL-TEMPORAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEST SICHUAN BASIN;

OZONE;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BASIN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); METEOROLOGY; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVER BASIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WINTER;

CHINA; SICHUAN BASIN;

EID: 85038210367     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.172     Document Type: Article

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