Recent trends in precursor concentrations and oxidant distributions in the Tokyo and Osaka areas

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 715-721

  Wakamatsu, Shinji ^a   Ohara, Toshimasa ^b   Uno, Itsushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b The Institute of Behavioral Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air pollution trends; NMHC NO(x) ratio; Photochemical air pollution

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDIZING AGENT; OZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; CITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; JAPAN; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

OXIDANT CONCENTRATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL AIR POLLUTION; VOC;

JAPAN, HINSHU, OSAKA; JAPAN, HONSHU, TOKYO;

EID: 0029669408     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00274-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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