Differences between magnitudes and health impacts of BC emissions across the United States using 12 km scale seasonal source apportionment.

@article{Turner2015DifferencesBM,
  title={Differences between magnitudes and health impacts of BC emissions across the United States using 12 km scale seasonal source apportionment.},
  author={M. Turner and Daven K. Henze and Amir Hakami and Shunliu Zhao and Jaroslav Resler and Gregory R. Carmichael and Charles O. Stanier and Jaemeen Baek and Adrian Sandu and Armistead G. Russell and Athanasios Nenes and G. R. Jeong and Shannon L. Capps and Peter Percell and Robert W. Pinder and Sergey L. Napelenok and Jesse O. Bash and Tianfeng Chai},
  journal={Environmental science \& technology},
  year={2015},
  volume={49 7},
  pages={
          4362-71
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:206990243}
}
The results show the value of the high-resolution source attribution for determining the locations, seasons, and sectors for which BC emission controls have the most effective health benefits.
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