Recent Changes in Particulate Air Pollution over China Observed from Space and the Ground: Effectiveness of Emission Control

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• 作者：Jintai Lin ; Chris P. Nielsen ; Yu Zhao ; Yu Lei ; Yang Liu ; Michael B. McElroy
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：October 15, 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：44
• 期：20
• 页码：7771-7776
• 全文大小：400K
• 年卷期：v.44,no.20(October 15, 2010)
• ISSN：1520-5851

文摘

The Chinese government has moved aggressively since 2005 to reduce emissions of a number of pollutants including primary particulate matter (PM) and sulfur dioxide (SO₂), efforts inadvertently aided since late 2008 by economic recession. Satellite observations of aerosol optical depth (AOD) and column nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) provide independent indicators of emission trends, clearly reflecting the sharp onset of the recession in the fall of 2008 and rebound of the economy in the latter half of 2009. Comparison of AOD with ground-based observations of PM over a longer period indicate that emission-control policies have not been successful in reducing concentrations of aerosol pollutants at smaller size range over industrialized regions of China. The lack of success is attributed to the increasing importance of anthropogenic secondary aerosols formed from precursor species including nitrogen oxides (NO_x), non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC), and ammonia (NH₃).