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Message from the Incoming NACA President 来自即将上任的NACA主席的信息

Clean Air Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI: 10.17159/caj/2022/32/2.15317

R. Burger

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The time is now to find each other to control pollution 现在是相互寻找控制污染的时候了

Clean Air Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI: 10.17159/caj/2022/32/2.15282

I. Sampson

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Temperature modifies the association between air pollution and respiratory disease hospital admissions in an industrial area of South Africa: The Vaal Triangle Air Pollution Priority Area 温度改变了南非一个工业区空气污染与呼吸系统疾病住院率之间的关系:瓦尔三角空气污染优先区

Clean Air Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI: 10.17159/caj/2022/32/2.14588

Nandi Mwase, B. Olutola, J. Wichmann

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Tier 2 Greenhouse Gas Emission Factors for South African Liquid and Gaseous Fuels 南非液体和气体燃料的二级温室气体排放因子

Clean Air Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI: 10.17159/caj/2022/32/2.15226

G. Kornelius, Patrick Forbes, T. Fischer, Malin Govender

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The launch of the first-ever Integrated Assessment of Air Pollution and Climate Change for Sustainable Development in Africa 首次启动空气污染和气候变化综合评估促进非洲可持续发展

Clean Air Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI: 10.17159/caj/2022/32/2.15320

A. Kaudia, Y. Sokona, B. Mantlana, A. Mbandi, P. Osano, Andersen Gwanyebit Kehbila, Lawrence Nzuve, Caroline Tagwireyi, C. Heaps, K. Hicks, Eve Palmer, B. Wernecke, Rebecca M. Garland

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The use of fire radiative power observations to determine spontaneous combustion event activities associated with coal mining on the Mpumalanga Highveld 利用火辐射功率观测来确定与普马兰加高原煤矿开采有关的自燃事件活动

Clean Air Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.17159/caj/2022/32/2.12145

Edwin Cogho, J. Beukes, P. V. van Zyl, V. Vakkari

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Using student science to identify research priority areas for air pollution in a university environment: an Ethiopian case study 利用学生科学来确定大学环境中空气污染的优先研究领域:埃塞俄比亚案例研究

Clean Air Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.17159/caj/2022/32/2.13470

Jan Dirk Dingemanse, Muse Abayneh Abiyu, Kirubel Getachew Tesfaye, Feyera Fekadu Roro

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Conceptualising air quality management instruments in South Africa 概念化南非的空气质量管理工具

Clean Air Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-12 DOI: 10.17159/caj/2022/32/2.13228

Phathutshedzo Mukwevho, F. Retief, R. Burger

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Wet season chemical composition of atmospheric wet deposition at Cape Point 开普敦雨季大气湿沉降的化学成分

Clean Air Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-24 DOI: 10.17159/caj/2022/32/1.12866

J. Swartz, P. V. van Zyl, J. Beukes, C. Galy-Lacaux, C. Labuschagne, E. Brunke, T. Mkololo, J. Pienaar

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The Minimum Emission Standards (MES) and the sabotage of public health 最低排放标准与对公众健康的破坏

Clean Air Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-24 DOI: 10.17159/caj/2022/32/1.14026

R. Euripidou, J. Irlam, D. Hallowes, T. Lloyd, Nicole Loser

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