Ozone distributions over the Los Angeles basin: Three-dimensional simulations with the smog model

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 4155-4176

  Lu, Rong ^a   Turco, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Los Angeles smog; Mesoscale meteorology; Ozone; Photochemistry; Tropospheric ozone; Urban air quality

Indexed keywords

NITRIC ACID; ORGANIC NITRATE; OZONE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOG; UNITED STATES; WIND;

3D SIMULATION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SCAQS; SMOG;

USA, CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES BASIN;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPOSPHERE;

MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OZONE DISTRIBUTIONS; SMOG; SURFACE METEOROLOGY AND OZONE GENERATION (SMOG) MODEL; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; URBAN AIR QUALITY;

AIR POLLUTION;

EID: 0030437220     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(96)00153-7     Document Type: Article

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