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Air pollution characteristics and their relation to meteorological conditions during 2014–2015 in major Chinese cities
Jianjun He,Sunling Gong,Ye Yu,Lijuan Yu,Lin Wu,Hongjun Mao,Congbo Song,Suping Zhao,H. L. Liu,Xiaoyu Li,Ruipeng Li +10 more
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Air pollution characteristics and their relation to multi-scale meteorological conditions during 2014-2015 in 31 provincial capital cities in China were analysed, indicating that the improvement in air quality was caused by emission controls.About:
This article is published in Environmental Pollution.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 461 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Air quality index & Pollutant.read more
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Air pollution in China: Status and spatiotemporal variations
Congbo Song,Lin Wu,Yaochen Xie,Jianjun He,Xi Chen,Ting Wang,Yingchao Lin,Taosheng Jin,Anxu Wang,Yan Liu,Qili Dai,Baoshuang Liu,Yanan Wang,Hongjun Mao +13 more
TL;DR: Though the air quality has been improving recent years, PM2.5 pollution in wintertime is worsening, especially in the Northern China, and more scientific air quality index standards are needed.
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Air pollution lowers Chinese urbanites’ expressed happiness on social media
TL;DR: A daily, city-level happiness metric constructed from the sentiment expressed in 210 million tweets on Sina Weibo from 144 cities shows that high levels of air pollution significantly reduce Chinese urbanites’ expressed happiness on social media.
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Air pollution reduction in China: Recent success but great challenge for the future.
TL;DR: Considering the complex relationship between O3, NOx, VOCs, weather, and socio-economic changes in China, it is necessary to increase research on impacts of increasing ozone on plants and to adopt novel technologies and implemented to further reduce air pollution to levels that will protect human health and the environment.
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Influence of meteorological conditions on PM2.5 concentrations across China: A review of methodology and mechanism.
Ziyue Chen,Danlu Chen,Chuanfeng Zhao,Mei Po Kwan,Jun Cai,Yan Zhuang,Bo Zhao,Xiaoyan Wang,Bin Chen,Jing Yang,Ruiyuan Li,Bin He,Bingbo Gao,Kaicun Wang,Bing Xu +14 more
TL;DR: Suggestions on future research and major meteorological approaches for mitigating PM2.5 pollution are made and causality analysis methods are found more suitable for extracting the influence of individual meteorological factors whilst statistical models are good at quantifying the overall effect of multiple meteorological Factors on PM 2.5.
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Defending blue sky in China: Effectiveness of the "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan" on air quality improvements from 2013 to 2017.
TL;DR: The results indicate that the overall air quality has been significantly improved, although the still high PM level, the dramatically increasing O3 concentration, and the stagnant amounts of NO2 present further challenges, along with the intensification of regional compound air pollution problems.
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High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China
Ru-Jin Huang,Yan-Lin Zhang,Carlo Bozzetti,Kin Fai Ho,Junji Cao,Yongming Han,Kaspar R. Daellenbach,Jay G. Slowik,Stephen Matthew Platt,Francesco Canonaco,Peter Zotter,Robert Wolf,Simone M. Pieber,Emily A. Bruns,Monica Crippa,Giancarlo Ciarelli,Andrea Piazzalunga,Margit Schwikowski,Gülcin Abbaszade,Jürgen Schnelle-Kreis,Ralf Zimmermann,Zhisheng An,Sönke Szidat,Urs Baltensperger,Imad El Haddad,André S. H. Prévôt +25 more
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.
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Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Estimation for the Global Burden of Disease 2013
Michael Brauer,Greg Freedman,Joseph Frostad,Aaron van Donkelaar,Randall V. Martin,Frank Dentener,Rita Van Dingenen,Kara Estep,Heresh Amini,Joshua S. Apte,Kalpana Balakrishnan,Lars Barregard,David M. Broday,Valery L. Feigin,Santu Ghosh,Philip K. Hopke,Luke D. Knibbs,Yoshihiro Kokubo,Yang Liu,Stefan Ma,Lidia Morawska,José Luis Texcalac Sangrador,Gavin Shaddick,H. Ross Anderson,Theo Vos,Mohammad H. Forouzanfar,Richard T. Burnett,Aaron Cohen +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combined satellite-based estimates, chemical transport model simulations, and ground measurements from 79 different countries to produce global estimates of annual average fine particle (PM2.5) and ozone concentrations at 0.1° × 0. 1° spatial resolution for five-year intervals from 1990 to 2010 and the year 2013.
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Correlations between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and meteorological variables in the United States: implications for the sensitivity of PM2.5 to climate change.
TL;DR: This paper applied a multiple linear regression (MLR) model to study the correlations of total PM2.5 and its components with meteorological variables using an 11-year observational record over the contiguous US.
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Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) in China at a city level
Yan-Lin Zhang,Fang Cao +1 more
TL;DR: It is found only 25 out of 190 cities could meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards of China, and the population-weighted mean of PM2.5 in Chinese cities are 61 μg/m3, ~3 times as high as global population- Weighted mean, highlighting a high health risk.
Ambient air pollution exposure estimation for the global burden of disease 2013
Michael Brauer,Greg Freedman,Joseph Frostad,Aaron van Donkelaar,Randall V. Martin,Frank Dentener,Rita Van Dingenen,Kara Estep,Heresh Amini,Joshua S. Apte,Kalpana Balakrishnan,Lars Barregard,David M. Broday,Valery L. Feigin,Santu Ghosh,Philip K. Hopke,Luke D. Knibbs,Yoshihiro Kokubo,Yang Liu,Stefan Ma,Lidia Morawska,José Luis Texcalac Sangrador,Gavin Shaddick,H. Ross Anderson,Theo Vos,Mohammad H. Forouzanfar,Richard T. Burnett,Aaron Cohen +27 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors combined satellite-based estimates, chemical transport model (CTM) simulations and ground measurements from 79 different countries to produce new global estimates of annual average fine particle (PM2.5) and ozone concentrations at 0.1° × 0. 1° spatial resolution for five-year intervals from 1990-2010 and the year 2013.
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