Advantages of a city-scale emission inventory for urban air quality research and policy: the case of Nanjing, a typical industrial city in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Zhao, Y.; Qiu, L. P.; Xu, R. Y.; Xie, F. J.; Zhang, Q.; Yu, Y. Y.; Nielsen, C. P.; Qin, H. X.; Wang, H. K.; Wu, X. C.; Li, W. Q.; Zhang, J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-12623-2015

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12 Nov 2015

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| 12 Nov 2015

Advantages of a city-scale emission inventory for urban air quality research and policy: the case of Nanjing, a typical industrial city in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Y. Zhao, L. P. Qiu, R. Y. Xu, F. J. Xie, Q. Zhang, Y. Y. Yu, C. P. Nielsen, H. X. Qin, H. K. Wang, X. C. Wu, W. Q. Li, and J. Zhang

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RC C6210: 'Reviewer 1 Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Aug 2015
- AC C8530: 'Main revisions and response to reviewer 1’s comments', Yu Zhao, 27 Oct 2015
RC C6842: 'Increase uncertainty discussion', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Sep 2015
- AC C8543: 'Main revisions and response to reviewer 2’s comments', Yu Zhao, 27 Oct 2015

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A high-resolution emission inventory of air pollutants and CO2 for Nanjing, a typical city in eastern China, is developed, incorporating the best available local information from on-site surveys. The temporal and spatial distribution of the emissions and the correlation between specific species of the inventory are assessed by comparisons with observations and other inventories at larger spatial scale. The emission inventory provides a basis to consider the quality of instrumental observations.