Dramatic improvement of aerosol pollution status over the East Asian ocean: from the establishment of Japanese environmental quality standard for PM2.5 in 2009 to its achievement in 2021
The severe aerosol pollution in East Asia has been a focus of much research. In Japan, the environmental quality standard (EQS) for PM _2.5 was established in 2009 (daily average, 35 μ g m ^−3 ; annual average, 15 μ g m ^−3 ), and its achievement rate was below 50% during the early 2010s. Then, the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2024-01-01
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Series: | Environmental Research Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad37ce |