Air quality and climate connections

AM Fiore, V Naik, EM Leibensperger - Journal of the Air & Waste …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Multiple linkages connect air quality and climate change. Many air pollutant sources also
emit carbon dioxide (CO2), the dominant anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG). The two …

Emissions estimation from satellite retrievals: A review of current capability

DG Streets, T Canty, GR Carmichael, B de Foy… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - Elsevier
Since the mid-1990s a new generation of Earth-observing satellites has been able to detect
tropospheric air pollution at increasingly high spatial and temporal resolution. Most primary …

Industrial and agricultural ammonia point sources exposed

M Van Damme, L Clarisse, S Whitburn, J Hadji-Lazaro… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Through its important role in the formation of particulate matter, atmospheric ammonia
affects air quality and has implications for human health and life expectancy,. Excess …

Satellite observations of atmospheric methane and their value for quantifying methane emissions

DJ Jacob, AJ Turner, JD Maasakkers… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Methane is a greenhouse gas emitted by a range of natural and anthropogenic sources.
Atmospheric methane has been measured continuously from space since 2003, and new …

Agricultural ammonia emissions in China: reconciling bottom-up and top-down estimates

L Zhang, Y Chen, Y Zhao, DK Henze… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Current estimates of agricultural ammonia (NH 3) emissions in China differ by more than a
factor of 2, hindering our understanding of their environmental consequences. Here we …

Ammonia emissions in the United States, European Union, and China derived by high‐resolution inversion of ammonium wet deposition data: Interpretation with a …

F Paulot, DJ Jacob, RW Pinder, JO Bash… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We use the adjoint of a global 3‐D chemical transport model (GEOS‐Chem) to optimize
ammonia (NH3) emissions in the US, European Union, and China by inversion of 2005 …

Multiphase buffer theory explains contrasts in atmospheric aerosol acidity

G Zheng, H Su, S Wang, MO Andreae, U Pöschl… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Aerosol acidity largely regulates the chemistry of atmospheric particles, and resolving the
drivers of aerosol pH is key to understanding their environmental effects. We find that an …

Sulfate-nitrate-ammonium aerosols over China: response to 2000–2015 emission changes of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and ammonia

Y Wang, QQ Zhang, K He, Q Zhang… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
We use a chemical transport model to examine the change of sulfate-nitrate-ammonium
(SNA) aerosols over China due to anthropogenic emission changes of their precursors (SO …

Environmental impacts of nitrogen emissions in China and the role of policies in emission reduction

XJ Liu, W Xu, EZ Du, AH Tang… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Atmospheric reactive nitrogen (Nr) has been a cause of serious environmental pollution in
China. Historically, China used too little Nr in its agriculture to feed its population. However …

Version 2 of the IASI NH3 neural network retrieval algorithm: near-real-time and reanalysed datasets

M Van Damme, S Whitburn, L Clarisse… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - amt.copernicus.org
Recently, Whitburn et al.(2016) presented a neural-network-based algorithm for retrieving
atmospheric ammonia (NH 3) columns from Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer …