Air pollution in mega cities in China

CK Chan, X Yao - Atmospheric environment, 2008 - Elsevier
Due to its rapidly expanding economic and industrial developments, China is currently
considered to be the engine of the world's economic growth. China's economic growth has …

Receptor modeling application framework for particle source apportionment

JG Watson, T Zhu, JC Chow, J Engelbrecht, EM Fujita… - Chemosphere, 2002 - Elsevier
Receptor models infer contributions from particulate matter (PM) source types using
multivariate measurements of particle chemical and physical properties. Receptor models …

Assessment of spatial distribution and potential ecological risk of the heavy metals in relation to granulometric contents of Veeranam lake sediments, India

G Suresh, P Sutharsan, V Ramasamy… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The contents and spatial distributions of heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) have been
studied in surface sediments of Veeranam lake, Tamilnadu, India. Heavy metal contents are …

Assessment of heavy metal pollution from a Fe-smelting plant in urban river sediments using environmental magnetic and geochemical methods

C Zhang, Q Qiao, JDA Piper, B Huang - Environmental pollution, 2011 - Elsevier
Environmental magnetic proxies provide a rapid means of assessing the degree of industrial
heavy metal pollution in soils and sediments. To test the efficiency of magnetic methods for …

[HTML][HTML] First long-term and near real-time measurement of trace elements in China's urban atmosphere: temporal variability, source apportionment and precipitation …

Y Chang, K Huang, M Xie, C Deng, Z Zou… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric trace elements, especially metal species, are an emerging environmental and
health concern with insufficient understanding of their levels and sources in Shanghai, the …

Source apportionment of magnetite particles in roadside airborne particulate matter

T Gonet, BA Maher, J Kukutschová - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Exposure to airborne particulate matter (PM) is associated with pulmonary, cardiovascular
and neurological problems. Magnetite, a mixed Fe 2+/Fe 3+ oxide, is ubiquitous and …

Energy demand and emissions from road transportation vehicles in China

X Yan, RJ Crookes - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2010 - Elsevier
Rapidly growing energy demand and emissions from China's road transportation vehicles in
the last two decades have raised concerns over oil security, urban air pollution and global …

Biomonitoring of traffic air pollution in Rome using magnetic properties of tree leaves

E Moreno, L Sagnotti, J Dinarès-Turell, A Winkler… - Atmospheric …, 2003 - Elsevier
We report a biomonitoring study of air pollution in Rome based on the magnetic properties of
tree leaves. In a first step, magnetic properties of leaves from different tree species from the …

The chemistry of the severe acidic precipitation in Shanghai, China

K Huang, G Zhuang, C Xu, Y Wang, A Tang - Atmospheric Research, 2008 - Elsevier
Seventy-six rain samples from forty-seven rain events and TSP aerosol samples throughout
the entire year of 2005 were collected in Shanghai, China. The annual mean pH in rain was …

Discriminating sources of anthropogenic heavy metals in urban street dusts using magnetic and chemical methods

C Zhang, Q Qiao, E Appel, B Huang - Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 2012 - Elsevier
Discriminating between different sources of natural and anthropogenic pollution is a topic of
scientific interest, but also important for sociopolitical and economic reasons. To contribute …