Recent increase of surface particulate matter concentrations in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, Korea

Abstract 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 wi...

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Main Authors: Hyun Cheol Kim, Soontae Kim, Byeong-Uk Kim, Chun-Sil Jin, Songyou Hong, Rokjin Park, Seok-Woo Son, Changhan Bae, MinAh Bae, Chang-Keun Song, Ariel Stein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05092-8