Levoglucosan as a tracer of biomass burning: Recent progress and perspectives

H Bhattarai, E Saikawa, X Wan, H Zhu, K Ram… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biomass burning (BB) is a major source of air pollution from local to global scale, having
variable effects on air quality, human health, and climate system. Therefore, the source …

Tropospheric volatile organic compounds in China

H Guo, ZH Ling, HR Cheng, IJ Simpson, XP Lyu… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Photochemical smog, characterized by high concentrations of ozone (O 3) and fine particles
(PM 2.5) in the atmosphere, has become one of the top environmental concerns in China …

Impacts of chemical degradation on the global budget of atmospheric levoglucosan and its use as a biomass burning tracer

Y Li, TM Fu, JZ Yu, X Feng, L Zhang… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Levoglucosan has been widely used to quantitatively assess biomass burning's contribution
to ambient aerosols, but previous such assessments have not accounted for levoglucosan's …

Humic-like substances (HULIS) in aerosols of central Tibetan Plateau (Nam Co, 4730 m asl): Abundance, light absorption properties, and sources

G Wu, X Wan, S Gao, P Fu, Y Yin, G Li… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Humic-like substances (HULIS) are major components of light-absorbing brown carbon that
play an important role in Earth's radiative balance. However, their concentration, optical …

Evaluation of anthropogenic secondary organic aerosol tracers from aromatic hydrocarbons

IM Al-Naiema, EA Stone - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
Products of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) from aromatic volatile organic compounds
(VOCs)–2, 3-dihydroxy-4-oxopentanoic acid, dicarboxylic acids, nitromonoaromatics, and …

Primary and secondary organic aerosol in an urban/industrial site: Sources, health implications and the role of plastic enriched waste burning

PG Kanellopoulos, E Verouti, E Chrysochou… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
PM10 samples were collected from an urban/industrial site nearby Athens, where
uncontrolled burning activities occur. PAHs, monocarboxylic, dicarboxylic, hydroxycarboxylic …

Aerosol properties over Tibetan Plateau from a decade of AERONET measurements: baseline, types, and influencing factors

M Pokharel, J Guang, B Liu, S Kang… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, a decade long measurement of aerosol optical properties at two AERONET
stations (Nam Co during 2006–2016 and QOMS during 2009–2017) in the Tibetan Plateau …

Influence of temperature on the heterogeneous reaction of toluene to N-containing organic compounds using in situ DRIFTS

X He, A Kudesi, S Wang, X Liu, L Hu - Atmospheric Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous reactions of toluene/NO 2 with and without O 3 on α-Fe 2 O 3 particles was
studied as a function of temperature by using in situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal variation of aerosol and potential long-range transport impact over the Tibetan Plateau, China

J Zhu, X Xia, H Che, J Wang, Z Cong… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
The long-term temporal–spatial variations in the aerosol optical properties over the Tibetan
Plateau (TP) and the potential long-range transport from surrounding areas to the TP were …

Ambient air quality in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, during the pre-monsoon: concentrations and sources of particulate matter and trace gases

MR Islam, T Jayarathne, IJ Simpson… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
The Kathmandu Valley in Nepal is a bowl-shaped urban basin that experiences severe air
pollution that poses health risks to its 3.5 million inhabitants. As part of the Nepal Ambient …