Ground-level ozone pollution in China: a synthesis of recent findings on influencing factors and impacts

T Wang, L Xue, Z Feng, J Dai, Y Zhang… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Ozone (O3) in the troposphere is an air pollutant and a greenhouse gas. In mainland China,
after the Air Pollution Prevention and Action Plan was implemented in 2013—and despite …

Multiphase oxidation of sulfur dioxide in aerosol particles: Implications for sulfate formation in polluted environments

T Liu, AWH Chan, JPD Abbatt - Environmental Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Atmospheric oxidation of sulfur dioxide (SO2) forms sulfate-containing aerosol particles that
impact air quality, climate, and human and ecosystem health. It is well-known that in-cloud …

[HTML][HTML] Source sector and fuel contributions to ambient PM2. 5 and attributable mortality across multiple spatial scales

EE McDuffie, RV Martin, JV Spadaro, R Burnett… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) is the world's leading environmental health risk
factor. Reducing the PM 2.5 disease burden requires specific strategies that target dominant …

Ozone pollution in the North China Plain spreading into the late-winter haze season

K Li, DJ Jacob, H Liao, Y Qiu, L Shen… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Surface ozone is a severe air pollution problem in the North China Plain, which is home to
300 million people. Ozone concentrations are highest in summer, driven by fast …

Secondary organic aerosol formed by condensing anthropogenic vapours over China's megacities

W Nie, C Yan, DD Huang, Z Wang, Y Liu, X Qiao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Secondary organic aerosol contributes a significant fraction to aerosol mass and toxicity.
Low-volatility organic vapours are critical intermediates connecting the oxidation of volatile …

Sustained emission reductions have restrained the ozone pollution over China

Y Wang, Y Zhao, Y Liu, Y Jiang, B Zheng, J Xing… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Near-surface ozone pollution, associated with complex responses to changing precursor
emissions and meteorological conditions, has become one of the biggest challenges in …

Revealing drivers of haze pollution by explainable machine learning

L Hou, Q Dai, C Song, B Liu, F Guo, T Dai… - … & Technology Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Many places on earth still suffer from a high level of atmospheric fine particulate matter
(PM2. 5) pollution. Formation of a particulate pollution event or haze episode (HE) involves …

Rapid growth of new atmospheric particles by nitric acid and ammonia condensation

M Wang, W Kong, R Marten, XC He, D Chen, J Pfeifer… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A list of authors and their affiliations appears at the end of the paper New-particle formation
is a major contributor to urban smog,, but how it occurs in cities is often puzzling. If the …

A chemical cocktail during the COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing, China: Insights from six-year aerosol particle composition measurements during the Chinese New Year …

Y Sun, L Lei, W Zhou, C Chen, Y He, J Sun, Z Li… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapidly spread coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has limited people's outdoor activities
and hence caused substantial reductions in anthropogenic emissions around the world …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of quarantine measures on chemical compositions of PM2. 5 during the COVID-19 epidemic in Shanghai, China

H Chen, J Huo, Q Fu, Y Duan, H Xiao, J Chen - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 epidemic broke out in Wuhan, Hubei in December 2019 and in January 2020
and was later transmitted to the entire country. Quarantine measures during Chinese New …