Coarse particulate matter air quality in East Asia: implications for fine particulate nitrate

Shixian Zhai1, Daniel J. Jacob2, Viral Shah2, Laura Yang2, Qiang Zhang3, Sun Yele4, Shuxiao Wang5, Gan Luo6, Fangqun Yu6, Jung-Hun Woo7, Younha Kim8, Jack E Dibb9, Taehyoung Lee10, Jinseok Han11, Bruce Anderson12, Ke Li13 and Hong Liao13, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (3)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (4)State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)Tsinghua University, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Beijing, China, (6)SUNY at Albany, Albany, United States, (7)Konkuk University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, (8)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, (9)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States, (10)Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Environmental Science, Yongin, South Korea, (11)Anyang University, Arlington, South Korea, (12)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (13)Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China