Modeling impacts of increased urban vegetation on ozone air quality in the South Coast Air Basin

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 3423-3430

  Taha, Haider ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesoscale modeling; Photochemistry; Urban airshed model; Urban vegetation

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; ISOPRENE; OZONE; TERPENE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; MODEL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECIES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION;

AIR QUALITY; HYDROCARBON; MODELLING; OZONE; URBAN AIRSHED MODEL; URBAN VEGETATION; VEGETATION EMISSION;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SOUTH COAST AIR BASIN;

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS;

ISOPRENE; MONOTERPENES; SOUTH COAST AIR BASIN; URBAN VEGETATION;

OZONE;

EID: 0030251169     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(96)00035-0     Document Type: Article

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