Evidence of air quality data misreporting in China: An impulse indicator saturation model comparison of local government-reported and U.S. embassy-reported PM2.5 concentrations (2015–2017)

Jesse S. Turiel; Robert K. Kaufmann

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249063

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Evidence of air quality data misreporting in China: An impulse indicator saturation model comparison of local government-reported and U.S. embassy-reported PM_2.5 concentrations (2015–2017)

Jesse S. Turiel ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jsturiel@hks.harvard.edu

Affiliation Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2371-2954

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Robert K. Kaufmann

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Evidence of air quality data misreporting in China: An impulse indicator saturation model comparison of local government-reported and U.S. embassy-reported PM_2.5 concentrations (2015–2017)

Jesse S. Turiel,
Robert K. Kaufmann

Published: April 21, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249063

About the Authors

Jesse S. Turiel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: jsturiel@hks.harvard.edu

Affiliation Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2371-2954

Robert K. Kaufmann

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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