“…Hence, the major local sources of PM 10 in Beijing are likely to be aerosols associated with over three million motor vehicles on roads, coal-fired power plants, centralized heating boilers, gasoline-stations, and commercial activities (He et al, 2001;Sun et al, 2004;Yang et al, 2011). Immediately next to several other large cities and within an extremely densely populated metropolitan region, emissions from industrial, transportation, as well as household solid fuel combustion in the surrounding area also contribute to a large portion of the air pollution in Beijing Wang et al, 2011aWang et al, , 2011b. PM 10 pollution at a site depends on initial concentrations at the source and removal processes.…”