Improved Global Estimates of Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations and Trends Derived from Updated Satellite Retrievals, Modeling Advances, and Additional Ground-Based Monitors
Melanie Sarah Hammer1,2, Aaron van Donkelaar1,2, Randall Martin1,2, Chi Li1,3, Alexei Lyapustin4, Andrew M Sayer4,5, Nai-Yung Christina Hsu4, Robert C Levy4, Michael J Garay6, Olga V. Kalashnikova6, Ralph A Kahn7, Michael Brauer8, Joshua Apte9, Daven K Henze10, Li Zhang11 and Qiang Zhang12,13, (1)Dalhousie University, Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, Canada, (2)Washington University in St. Louis, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, (3)University of California at Berkeley, Dept Chemistry, Berkeley, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of British Columbia, School of Population and Public Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (9)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (10)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Department of Earth System Science,Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (13)Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China