Satellite NO2 retrievals suggest China has exceeded its NOx reduction goals from the twelfth Five-Year Plan

de Foy, Benjamin; Lu, Zifeng; Streets, David G.

doi:10.1038/Srep35912

Title: Satellite NO₂ retrievals suggest China has exceeded its NO_x reduction goals from the twelfth Five-Year Plan

Journal Article · Thu Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/Srep35912· OSTI ID:1416744

de Foy, Benjamin ^[1]; Lu, Zifeng ^[2]; Streets, David G. ^[2]

St. Louis Univ., MO (United States). Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Energy System Division

China’s twelfth Five-Year Plan included pollution control measures with a goal of reducing national emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO_x) by 10% by 2015 compared with 2010. Multiple linear regression analysis was used on 11-year time series of all nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) pixels from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) over 18 NO₂ hotspots in China. The regression analysis accounted for variations in meteorology, pixel resolution, seasonal effects, weekday variability and year-to-year variability. The NO₂ trends suggested that there was an increase in NO₂ columns in most areas from 2005 to around 2011 which was followed by a strong decrease continuing through 2015. The satellite results were in good agreement with the annual official NO_x emission inventories which were available up until 2014. We show the value of evaluating trends in emission inventories using satellite retrievals. It further shows that recent control strategies were effective in reducing emissions and that recent economic transformations in China may be having an effect on NO₂ columns. The satellite information for 2015 suggests that emissions have continued to decrease since the latest inventories available and have surpassed the goals of the twelfth Five-Year Plan.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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OSTI ID:: 1416744

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322

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