Elucidating severe urban haze formation in China

S Guo, M Hu, ML Zamora, J Peng… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
As the world's second largest economy, China has experienced severe haze pollution, with
fine particulate matter (PM) recently reaching unprecedentedly high levels across many …

Chemical composition of pre-monsoon air in the Indo-Gangetic Plain measured using a new air quality facility and PTR-MS: high surface ozone and strong influence …

V Sinha, V Kumar, C Sarkar - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2014 - acp.copernicus.org
One seventh of the world's population lives in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) and the fertile
region sustains agricultural food crop production for much of South Asia, yet it remains one …

Sustainable passenger road transport scenarios to reduce fuel consumption, air pollutants and GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area

C Chavez-Baeza, C Sheinbaum-Pardo - Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents passenger road transport scenarios that may assist the MCMA (Mexico
City Metropolitan Area) in achieving lower emissions in both criteria air pollutants (CO, NO x …

Secondary organic aerosol yields of 12-carbon alkanes

CL Loza, JS Craven, LD Yee… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - acp.copernicus.org
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) yields were measured for cyclododecane,
hexylcyclohexane, n-dodecane, and 2-methylundecane under high-NO x conditions, in …

Sources and sinks of carbon dioxide in a neighborhood of Mexico City

E Velasco, R Perrusquia, E Jiménez… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - Elsevier
Cities are the main contributors to the CO 2 rise in the atmosphere. The CO 2 released from
the various emission sources is typically quantified by a bottom-up aggregation process that …

Physical properties of ambient and laboratory‐generated secondary organic aerosol

RE O'Brien, A Neu, SA Epstein… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The size and thickness of organic aerosol particles collected by impaction in five field
campaigns were compared to those of laboratory‐generated secondary organic aerosols …

Area fluxes of carbon dioxide, methane, and carbon monoxide derived from airborne measurements around Greater London: A case study during summer 2012

SJ O'Shea, G Allen, ZL Fleming… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Airborne measurements of thermodynamic properties and carbon dioxide (CO2), methane
(CH4), and carbon monoxide (CO) mole fractions were recorded on board the FAAM BAe …

Air quality and CO emissions in the Moscow megacity

N Elansky - Urban Climate, 2014 - Elsevier
Moscow with a population of 12.1 million people is the largest city in Europe. An up-to-date
monitoring network organized in Moscow in the early 2000's has made it possible to …

Impacts of Stabilized Criegee Intermediates, surface uptake processes and higher aromatic secondary organic aerosol yields on predicted PM2. 5 concentrations in …

Q Ying, IV Cureño, G Chen, S Ali, H Zhang… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) with the SAPRC-99 gas
phase photochemical mechanism and the AERO5 aerosol module was applied to model …

The impacts of urbanization on air quality over the Pearl River Delta in winter: roles of urban land use and emission distribution

B Chen, S Yang, XD Xu, W Zhang - Theoretical and applied climatology, 2014 - Springer
In this study, ideal but realistic numerical experiments are performed to explore the relative
effects of changes in land use and emission distribution on air quality in the Pearl River …