Mechanism reduction techniques applied to tropospheric chemistry

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1059-1073

  Heard, Anne C ^a   Pilling, Michael J ^a   Tomlin, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon bond mechanism; Mechanism reduction; QSSA; Sensitivity analysis; Tropospheric ozone formation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OZONE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

CARBON BOND MECHANISM; MECHANISM REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; QUASI STEADY STATE APPROXIMATION (QSSA); TROPOSPHERIC OZONE FORMATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

OZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COMBUSTION; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE;

ACCURACY; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0032029471     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00368-3     Document Type: Article

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