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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Substantial reductions in black carbon from both fossil fuels and biomass burning during China's Clean Air Action.

Junwen Liu, Fan Jiang, Qiongqiong Wang, Gan Zhang, Jun Li, Weihua Chen, Ping Ding, Sanyuan Zhu, Zhineng Cheng, Xiangyun Zhang and 10 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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20 authors.

Junwen LiuInstitute for Environmental and Climate Research, College of Environment and Climate, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7252-3017
Fan JiangState Key Laboratory of Advanced Environmental Technology, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China.ORCID 0009-0002-6160-7896
Qiongqiong WangDivision of Environment and Sustainability, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, China.
Gan ZhangState Key Laboratory of Advanced Environmental Technology, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9010-8140
Jun LiState Key Laboratory of Advanced Environmental Technology, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3637-1642
Weihua ChenInstitute for Environmental and Climate Research, College of Environment and Climate, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8153-0286
Ping DingState Key Laboratory of Deep Earth Processes and Resources, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3018-4720
Sanyuan ZhuState Key Laboratory of Advanced Environmental Technology, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China.
Zhineng ChengState Key Laboratory of Advanced Environmental Technology, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6598-849X
Xiangyun ZhangState Key Laboratory of Advanced Environmental Technology, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China.
Qinge ShaInstitute for Environmental and Climate Research, College of Environment and Climate, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2173-7987
Zhijiong HuangInstitute for Environmental and Climate Research, College of Environment and Climate, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China.
Xin YuanInstitute for Environmental and Climate Research, College of Environment and Climate, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China.
Junyu ZhengSustainable Energy and Environment Thrust, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou 510145, China.
Yanlin ZhangSchool of Ecology and Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.
Caiqing YanEnvironment Research Institute, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.
Chongguo TianCAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai 264003, China.
Yingjun ChenShanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4784-8282
Jian Zhen YuDivision of Environment and Sustainability, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, China.
Örjan GustafssonDepartment of Environmental Science and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm 11418, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1922-0527

Funding

Guang Dong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation 2024B1515040026MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 41877349MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 42192510Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor Program 2017-01601Swedish Research Foundation VINNOVA through grant VINNMER Marie Curie Incoming Fellow 2016-04077
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Black carbon (BC) aerosols exacerbate air pollution and climate warming, but their climatic impacts and sources are poorly constrained by bottom-up emission inventories (EIs). China's Clean Air Action (CAA), which was launched in 2013, provides an excellent opportunity for investigating interannual variations in source contributions and validate the accuracy of EIs. Here, we present an 11-y (2008-2018) record of the BC concentration and its source-diagnostic radiocarbon (

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Air PollutantsAir PollutionFossil FuelsSootAerosolsBiomassCarbonCarbon IsotopesChinaEnvironmental MonitoringAerosolsAir PollutantsCarbonCarbon IsotopesFossil FuelsSootblack carbonClean Air Actionemission inventoryisotope evidence

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PMID40854120
PMCPMC12415198

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