Monica Crippa

TL;DR: The results suggest that, in addition to mitigating primary particulate emissions, reducing the emissions of secondary aerosol precursors from fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning is likely to be important for controlling China’s PM2.5 levels and for reducing the environmental, economic and health impacts resulting from particulate pollution.

TL;DR: The most recent version of the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR v4.3.2) as discussed by the authors compiles gaseous and particulate air pollutant emissions, making use of the same anthropogenic sectors, time period (1970-2012), and international activity data that is used for estimating GHG emissions, as described in a companion paper.

TL;DR: The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) v4.3.2 as mentioned in this paper is the most recent version of the EDGAR emission inventory, which provides global emissions data for greenhouse gases (GHGs), and for multiple air pollutants.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a method for estimating cooking organic aerosol in ambient datasets based on the fractions of organic mass fragments at m/z 55 and 57: their data points fall into a V-shape in a scatter plot, with strongly influenced HOA data aligned to right arm and strongly influenced COA data points aligned to the left arm.

TL;DR: In this article, a multilinear engine (ME-2) was applied to non-refractory organic aerosol (OA) mass spectra collected during the winter 2011 and 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland using the aerosol chemical speciation monitor (ACSM).