Response of Organic Aerosol Characteristics to Emission Reduction in Yangtze River Delta Region

Overview

Journal Front Environ Sci Eng

Date 2023 May 1

PMID 37125146

Authors

Jinbo Wang

Jiaping Wang

Wei Nie

Xuguang Chi

Dafeng Ge

Caijun Zhu

Lei Wang

Yuanyuan Li

Xin Huang

Ximeng Qi

Yuxuan Zhang

Tengyu Liu

Aijun Ding

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Abstract

Electronic Supplementary Material: Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at 10.1007/s11783-023-1714-0 and is accessible for authorized users.

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