Particles, air quality, policy and health

MR Heal, P Kumar, RM Harrison - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The diversity of ambient particle size and chemical composition considerably complicates
pinpointing the specific causal associations between exposure to particles and adverse …

Satellite contributions to the quantitative characterization of biomass burning for climate modeling

C Ichoku, R Kahn, M Chin - Atmospheric Research, 2012 - Elsevier
Characterization of biomass burning from space has been the subject of an extensive body
of literature published over the last few decades. Given the importance of this topic, we …

NOAA's HYSPLIT atmospheric transport and dispersion modeling system

AF Stein, RR Draxler, GD Rolph… - Bulletin of the …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory model (HYSPLIT),
developed by NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory, is one of the most widely used models for …

[HTML][HTML] A user-friendly tool for comprehensive evaluation of the geographical origins of atmospheric pollution: Wind and trajectory analyses

JE Petit, O Favez, A Albinet, F Canonaco - Environmental Modelling & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Various receptor methodologies have been developed in the last decades to investigate the
geographical origins of atmospheric pollution, based either on wind data or on …

Recent increase of surface particulate matter concentrations in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, Korea

HC Kim, S Kim, BU Kim, CS **, S Hong, R Park… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Recent changes of surface particulate matter (PM) concentration in the Seoul Metropolitan
Area (SMA), South Korea, are puzzling. The long-term trend of surface PM concentration in …

The impact of circulation patterns on regional transport pathways and air quality over Bei**g and its surroundings

JP Zhang, T Zhu, QH Zhang, CC Li… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - acp.copernicus.org
This study investigated the air pollution characteristics of synoptic-scale circulation in the
Bei**g megacity, and provided quantitative evaluation of the impacts of circulation patterns …

Long-range transport and regional sources of PM2. 5 in Bei**g based on long-term observations from 2005 to 2010

L Wang, Z Liu, Y Sun, D Ji, Y Wang - Atmospheric Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Haze pollution in Bei**g is rather deteriorated. Long-term measurement of PM 2.5 from
2005 to 2010 at an urban site in Bei**g showed very high concentration level with an …

Size distribution, mixing state and source apportionment of black carbon aerosol in London during wintertime

D Liu, JD Allan, DE Young, H Coe… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - acp.copernicus.org
Black carbon aerosols (BC) at a London urban site were characterised in both winter-and
summertime 2012 during the Clean Air for London (ClearfLo) project. Positive matrix …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of mining on the metal content of dust in indigenous villages of northern Chile

NC Zanetta-Colombo, ZL Fleming, EM Gayo… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Indigenous communities from northern Chile have historically been exposed to the impacts
of massive copper industrial activities conducted in the region. Some of the communities …

Atmospheric brown clouds reach the Tibetan Plateau by crossing the Himalayas

ZL Lüthi, B Škerlak, SW Kim, A Lauer… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau region (HTP), despite being a remote and sparsely
populated area, is regularly exposed to polluted air masses with significant amounts of …