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15 Mar 2016
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| 15 Mar 2016
Top-down estimates of benzene and toluene emissions in the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong, China
Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Min Shao
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Andreas Stohl
Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway
Qiang Zhang
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Junyu Zheng
College of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, University Town, Guangzhou, China
Air Quality Studies, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Chen Wang
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
College of Environmental Engineering and Science, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan, Shandong, China
Ming Wang
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Jiamin Ou
Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Rona L. Thompson
Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway
Ronald G. Prinn
Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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This is the first study reporting top-down estimates of benzene and toluene emissions in southern China using atmospheric measurement data from a rural site in the area, an atmospheric transport model and an inverse modeling method. This study shows in detail the temporal and spatial differences between the inversion estimate and four different bottom-up emission inventories (RCP, REAS, MEIC; Yin et al., 2015). We propose that more observations are urgently needed in future.
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