This article traces the erection of and changes in the Buddhist temple of Chongshansi in Taiyuan through the process of spatial production under the social background of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is stated that the founding time of the temple c...
Combined air pollution of ozone and PM2.5 often occurs in coal-based cities of China such as Taiyuan City. In this study, the Weather Research and Forecasting/Chemistry (WRF-Chem) model was employed to simulate a combined high air pollution event of...
The Taiyuan Formation, located on the northern margin of the Ordos Basin, has an important role in reconstructing tectonic paleogeography and evolutionary process due to its preservation of information about the tectonic evolution of the basin throug...
Seasonal characteristics of PM2.5, organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) were studied in Taiyuan from 2009 to 2010. PM2.5 samples were collected by pre-baked quartz filters with high-volume air sampler, and then OC and EC were analyzed by the...
Taiyuan City in the eastern Loess Plateau has experienced severe ecological problems caused by urban expansion. For cities undergoing rapid urbanization, building an ecological security pattern (ESP) is an effective means to improve urban resilience....
The Taiyuan Xishan Ecological Restoration Zone is located in the west of Taiyuan City and belongs to the Xishan Coalfield. Due to the resource development activity of coal mining, which is caused by coal gangue accumulation, surface vegetation degrad...
14 July 2019
The Taiyuan formation limestone water in the Huaibei coalfield is not only the water source for coal mining, but also the water source for industry and agriculture in mining areas. Its hydrogeochemical characteristics and water quality are generally...
In this paper, the limestone reservoir of the Upper Permian Taiyuan Formation in the Ordos Basin is taken as the research object. Through various analysis and testing methods, the characterization and classification evaluation of pore structure were...
In order to evaluate the hydrocarbon generation potential and effectiveness of the carbonate source rock from the Lower Permian Taiyuan Formation of the Upper Paleozoic gas reservoirs in the central and eastern Ordos Basin, 87 core samples from the f...
The pollution of agricultural soil by heavy metals is a significant environmental issue that has a serious impact on human health and food security. This study focused on investigating the presence of heavy metal pollution in sewage-irrigated soils i...
COVID-19 has killed millions of people worldwide. As a result, medical and health resources continue to be strained, posing a great threat to people’s safety and economic and social development. This paper built the index system of influencing...
Reasonably allocating medical resources can effsectively optimize the utilization efficiency of such resources. This paper took Taiyuan City as an example and established a model to evaluate the rationality of medical resource spatial allocation, inc...
The Xishan coalfield is an important coking coal-producing area in China. The No. 8 and No. 9 coals of the Taiyuan formation were sampled and tested from nine mines in the center and north of the Xishan coalfield, and the coal’s quality charact...
To further study the reservoir characteristics and adsorption capacity of the Taiyuan Formation shale in the South North China Basin (SNCB), the pore structure and adsorption capacity of shale are discussed using various analysis tests, including ele...
To characterize seasonal carbonaceous aerosol pollution in Taiyuan, a typical city in North China that mainly relies heavily on coal, a total of 124 PM2.5 samples were collected from August 2018 to the next May. The annual mean PM2.5 concentration wa...
Atmospheric environmental quality affects the high quality and sustainable development of the economy. The optimisation and upgrading of the industrial system are important to improve the operation efficiency of the economy and society. Firstly, this...
As a crucial component of studies on land use and cover change (LUCC), the reconstruction of historical cropland cover is important for assessing human impact on the environment. This study collects cropland records of each county in Taiyuan City bas...
Ordos Basin is an important continental shale gas exploration site in China. The micropore structure of the shale reservoir is of great importance for shale gas evaluation. The Taiyuan Formation of the lower Permian is the main exploration interval f...
PM2.5 samples were collected in the rural and urban areas of Taiyuan, China during a typical haze episode and the heavy metals (Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd and Pb) in PM2.5 were analyzed. The haze was characterized by start-up stage with a daily mean...
Climate warming and air pollution are atmospheric environmental problems that have aroused broad concern worldwide. Greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause of global warming. In addition to reducing carbon emissions, increasing carbon sink capaci...
Urban green space (UGS) is a crucial physical area that supports the functioning of urban ecosystems, and its changes affect urban ecological balance. In order to accurately analyze the dynamic processes and transfer targets of UGS during urbanizatio...
Rapid urbanization in China has reshaped retail spatial structures, creating challenges of accessibility and service equity. This study employs a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based analytical framework to examine the spatial distribution and...
The hydrogeological conditions of Huainan Coalfield are complex. The Taiyuan formation limestone water (Taihui water) in this area is a direct threat to the water source of the 1# coal mining floor. In order to prevent and control water disasters, Gu...
The Taiyuan Formation limestone in the Ordos Basin of China holds significant gas-bearing potential, making it a key target for unconventional natural gas exploration. Clarifying the microscopic occurrence mechanism of gas in limestone is necessary....
The pore structure of reservoir rocks was a crucial factor affecting hydrocarbon production. Accurately characterized the micropore structure of different types of rock reservoirs was of great significance for unconventional natural gas exploration....
Urban form plays a crucial role in regulating urban thermal environments and air pollution patterns. However, the indirect mechanisms through which urban form influences PM2.5 concentrations via land surface temperature (LST) remain poorly understood...
8 October 2017
Abstract: To compare the human health risk of heavy metals and As in sewage sludge between adults and children, samples were collected from five wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) located in the urban district of Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi. Heav...
Conducting agricultural land suitability assessments (ALSA) scientifically is crucial for ensuring food security and fostering sustainable agricultural development. This study assessed the suitability of agricultural land in Taiyuan using a geographi...
Ambient carbonyls are critical precursors of ozone (O3) and secondary organic aerosols (SOA). To better understand the pollution characteristics of carbonyls in Taiyuan, field samplings were conducted, and 13 carbonyls were detected in an urban site...
This article addresses the challenge of maintaining water quality in urban landscape lakes in water-scarce cities using transparency as the key indicator. The sensitivity of water transparency to nine water quality parameters, including chlorophyll a...
High prevalence of vitamin D deficiency has been reported worldwide. Residents of Taiyuan, China, were predicted to be at high risk of vitamin D deficiency due to its high latitude, heavy air pollution, and cultural sun avoidance. This study investig...
In order to explore the characteristics of the periphytic algae community structure and its relationship with environmental factors in the Taiyuan region of the Fenhe River, a total of six sampling sites were investigated in July and December 2021. T...
Excessive groundwater exploitation is common through the Taiyuan basin, China, and is well known to result in ground subsidence. However, most ground subsidence studies in this region focus on a single place (Taiyuan city), and thus fail to demonstra...
Prediction of air pollutant concentrations is currently one of the most important methods for the prevention and control of urban air pollution in most countries, and accurate and timely prediction of pollutant concentrations is of great significance...
As the natural resources are getting exhausted, the concept of sustainable development of regions has received increasing attention, especially for resource-dependent cities. In this paper, an innovative method based on emergy analysis and the Human...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genome-containing virus which has infected millions of people all over the world. The virus has been mutating rapidly enough, resulting in the emerg...
The shales of the Taiyuan Formation and Shanxi Formation in the North China Basin have good prospects for shale gas exploration and development. In this study, Well KP1 at the northern margin of the North China Basin was used as the research object f...
The deterioration of environmental air quality is an urgent global issue, and the level of air pollution is particularly severe in developing countries. This study aims to understand the air quality problems in Taiyuan City and explore the evolution...
8 June 2022
COVID-19 has caused more than 500 million infections and 6 million deaths. Due to a continuous shortage of medical resources, COVID-19 has raised alarm about medical and health resource allocation in China. A balanced spatial distribution of medical...
Exploring the crop production water footprint and their driving factors is of significant importance for management of agricultural water resources. However, how do we effectively assess the total agricultural water consumption and explore the signif...
31 August 2020
The quality of urban soil is closely related to the safety of public places and the guarantee of food quality. This study investigated the level, distribution, source, and carcinogenic risk of 16 U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) priority po...
In the dialogue between “wind” and “earth”, terroir-built heritage and the natural environment together construct the cultural landscape of agrarian civilization. Understanding historical heritage within the broader landscape...
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a common pollutant, and its health risk has attracted much attention. Studies have shown that PM2.5 exposure is associated with liver disease. The composition of PM2.5 is complex, and its hepatotoxic effects and lip...
1 October 2018
In this study, we estimated the short-term effects of ambient air pollution on respiratory disease hospitalization in Taiyuan, China. Daily data of respiratory disease hospitalization, daily concentration of ambient air pollutants and meteorological...
Accurately determining the pore structure and heterogeneity characteristics of marine-continental transitional shale in the Taiyuan Formation is crucial for evaluating the shale gas resources in the northern Ordos Basin. However, the studies on pore...
Multi-source data fusion can help to weaken the original data’s shortcomings while improving data accuracy. The experimental area in this research is Taiyuan City in Shanxi Province, China. Using SRTM1 DEM, ASTER GDEM V3, and AW3D30 DEM, the op...
The shallow-layer resources in the Huanghebei Coalfield have been depleted, and the deep coal seam of the Taiyuan Formation (lower coal group) is the main continuous resource in mining at this stage. With the annual increase in mining depth, the expl...
Low impact development (LID) is a storm management philosophy. This paper aims at choosing the LID for urban storm management by comparing the efficiency in the south urban district in the Taiyuan Basin. Firstly, we set up a 1D–2D model to simu...
Ecosystem services value (ESV) has been one index of quantitative evaluation for the ecological livability of heavy industry cities in the new era, which is intimately relevant to patterns of spatio-temporal changes in land use. This study aims to re...
A soundscape carries the culture and memories of historical and cultural areas, capable of evoking people’s emotions towards a place. This paper aims to explore the influence of the soundscape on the sense of place in historical and cultural ar...
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