NOx emissions from soil: Implications for air quality modeling in agricultural regions

Annual Review of Energy and the Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 311-346

  Hall, Sharon J ^a   Matson, Pamela A ^a   Roth, Philip M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Envair   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural management; Biogenic nitric oxide; Denitrification; Nitrification; Nitrogen fertilizer nitrogen cycling; Tropospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AIR QUALITY; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIOGENIC NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN FERTILIZER;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

EID: 0030406314     PISSN: 10563466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.energy.21.1.311     Document Type: Article

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