Vehicle emissions constitute the main source of atmospheric pollution in modern cities. The increasing number of passenger cars, especially during the last decade, resulted in composite traffic problems with serious consequences on emissions and fuel consumption. This project was carried out in the...

The El Nino-Southern Oscillation is the dominant pattern of short-term climate variation, and is therefore of great importance in climate studies. Some recent studies showed the teleconnection between stream flow and the El-Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. This paper...

Successful start-up of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is a key issue for the succeeding operation of WWTP on the one hand and the nutritious phosphorus removal is of great concern on the other. After the construction of Mudanjiang WWTP with a flow rate of 100,000 m3 d-1 in...