Authors
Ru-Jin Huang, Yanlin Zhang, Carlo Bozzetti, Kin-Fai Ho, Jun-Ji Cao, Yongming Han, Kaspar R Daellenbach, Jay G Slowik, Stephen M 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 SH Prévôt
Publication date
2014/10
Journal
Nature
Volume
514
Issue
7521
Pages
218-222
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Description
Rapid industrialization and urbanization in developing countries has led to an increase in air pollution, along a similar trajectory to that previously experienced by the developed nations. In China, particulate pollution is a serious environmental problem that is influencing air quality, regional and global climates, and human health,. In response to the extremely severe and persistent haze pollution experienced by about 800 million people during the first quarter of 2013 (refs , ), the Chinese State Council announced its aim to reduce concentrations of PM2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 micrometres) by up to 25 per cent relative to 2012 levels by 2017 (ref. ). Such efforts however require elucidation of the factors governing the abundance and composition of PM2.5, which remain poorly constrained in China,,. Here we combine a comprehensive set of novel and state-of-the-art offline …
Scholar articles
RJ Huang, Y Zhang, C Bozzetti, KF Ho, JJ Cao, Y Han… - Nature, 2014