A modeling study of the impact of urban trees on ozone

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1601-1613

  Nowak, David J ^a   Civerolo, Kevin L ^b   Trivikrama Rao, S ^b   Sistla, Gopal ^b   Luley, Christopher J ^c   Crane, Daniel E ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Bureau of Air Research   (United States)

^c Davey Resource Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality modeling; Biogenic hydrocarbons; Dry deposition; Photochemistry; Urban forestry; Urban meteorology

Indexed keywords

BIOGENICITY; DRY DEPOSITION;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FORESTRY; HYDROCARBONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; VEGETATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AIR POLLUTION;

HYDROCARBON; OZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYER; OZONE; TREE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; DRY DEPOSITION; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE; URBAN AREA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033626807     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(99)00394-5     Document Type: Article

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