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SUBMITTER: Kim HC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5498658 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Hyun Cheol HC Kim Soontae S Kim Byeong-Uk BU Jin Chun-Sil CS Hong Songyou S Park Rokjin R Son Seok-Woo SW Bae Changhan C Bae MinAh M Song Chang-Keun CK Stein Ariel A
Scientific reports 20170705 1
Recent changes of surface particulate matter (PM) concentration in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA), South Korea, are puzzling. The long-term trend of surface PM concentration in the SMA declined in the 2000s, but since 2012 its concentrations have tended to incline, which is coincident with frequent severe hazes in South Korea. This increase puts the Korean government's emission reduction efforts in jeopardy. This study reports that interannual variation of surface PM concentration in South Ko ...[more]