Air quality changes in cities during the COVID-19 lockdown: A critical review

MG Adam, PTM Tran, R Balasubramanian - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
In response to the rapid spread of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) within and across
countries and the need to protect public health, governments worldwide introduced …

Formation of urban fine particulate matter

R Zhang, G Wang, S Guo, ML Zamora, Q Ying… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Urban air pollution represents one of the greatest environmental challenges facing mankind
in the 21st century. 1, 2 Noticeably, many develo** countries, such as China and India …

Sources of particulate-matter air pollution and its oxidative potential in Europe

KR Daellenbach, G Uzu, J Jiang, LE Cassagnes… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Particulate matter is a component of ambient air pollution that has been linked to millions of
annual premature deaths globally,–. Assessments of the chronic and acute effects of …

Oxidation of sulfur dioxide by nitrogen dioxide accelerated at the interface of deliquesced aerosol particles

T Liu, JPD Abbatt - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Although the multiphase chemistry of SO2 in aerosol particles is of great importance to air
quality under polluted haze conditions, a fundamental understanding of the pertinent …

Microphysical properties of atmospheric soot and organic particles: measurements, modeling, and impacts

W Li, N Riemer, L Xu, Y Wang, K Adachi, Z Shi… - npj Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
Atmospheric soot and organic particles from fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning
modify Earth's climate through their interactions with solar radiation and through …

Particulate matter, air quality and climate: lessons learned and future needs

S Fuzzi, U Baltensperger, K Carslaw… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
The literature on atmospheric particulate matter (PM), or atmospheric aerosol, has increased
enormously over the last 2 decades and amounts now to some 1500–2000 papers per year …

Review of urban secondary organic aerosol formation from gasoline and diesel motor vehicle emissions

DR Gentner, SH Jathar, TD Gordon… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is formed from the atmospheric oxidation of gas-phase
organic compounds leading to the formation of particle mass. Gasoline-and diesel-powered …

Elemental ratio measurements of organic compounds using aerosol mass spectrometry: characterization, improved calibration, and implications

MR Canagaratna, JL Jimenez, JH Kroll… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Elemental compositions of organic aerosol (OA) particles provide useful constraints on OA
sources, chemical evolution, and effects. The Aerodyne high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol …

Real-time sensing of bioaerosols: Review and current perspectives

JA Huffman, AE Perring, NJ Savage, B Clot… - Aerosol Science and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Detection of bioaerosols, or primary biological aerosol particles (PBAPs), has become
increasingly important for a wide variety of research communities and scientific questions. In …

[HTML][HTML] Methods for estimating uncertainty in PMF solutions: Examples with ambient air and water quality data and guidance on reporting PMF results

SG Brown, S Eberly, P Paatero, GA Norris - Science of the total environment, 2015 - Elsevier
The new version of EPA's positive matrix factorization (EPA PMF) software, 5.0, includes
three error estimation (EE) methods for analyzing factor analytic solutions: classical …