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Three-decade changes in chemical composition of precipitation in Guangzhou city, southern China: has precipitation recovered from acidification following sulphur dioxide emission control? Cover

Three-decade changes in chemical composition of precipitation in Guangzhou city, southern China: has precipitation recovered from acidification following sulphur dioxide emission control?

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 65 (2013): Issue 1
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|Jan 2013
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v65i0.20213 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 20213 - 20213
Submitted on: Dec 4, 2012
Accepted on: Aug 5, 2013
Published on: Jan 1, 2013
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
chemical composition,
precipitation,
southern China,
sulphur and nitrogen deposition,
sulphur dioxide emission control

© 2013 Yunting Fang, Xuemei Wang, Feifei Zhu, Zhiyong Wu, Jiong Li, Liuju Zhong, Duohong Chen, Muneoki Yoh, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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