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The code of "Spatiotemporal dynamics of tire wear particles reveal escalating emission inequalities across China’s road network"
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Researchers share the Python codebase underlying a spatiotemporal analysis of tire wear particle emissions across China's road network, enabling replication of the study's findings on growing emission inequalities between regions.
This repository contains the Python codes associated with the paper titled "Spatiotemporal dynamics of tire wear particles reveal escalating emission inequalities across China’s road network".
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