Air pollutant emissions from Chinese households: A major and underappreciated ambient pollution source
Peking University · State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control · +6 more institutions
Abstract
As part of the 12th Five-Year Plan, the Chinese government has developed air pollution prevention and control plans for key regions with a focus on the power, transport, and industrial sectors. Here, we investigate the contribution of residential emissions to regional air pollution in highly polluted eastern China during the heating season, and find that dramatic improvements in air quality would also result from reduction in residential emissions. We use the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry to evaluate potential residential emission controls in Beijing and in the Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei (BTH) region. In January and February 2010, relative to the base case, eliminating…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 42.60
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 52
Authors
13- JLJun LiuCorresponding
Peking University, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control
- DLDenise L. Mauzerall
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Princeton University
- QCQi Chen
Peking University, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control
- QZQiang Zhang
Tsinghua University
- YSYu Song
Peking University, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control
Topics & keywords
- Pollutant
- Environmental science
- Pollution
- Air pollution
- Air pollutants
- Environmental protection
- Environmental engineering
- Environmental planning