The impact of megacity pollution on local climate and implications for the regional environment: Mexico City

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1805-1811

  Raga, G B ^a   Castro, T ^a   Baumgardner, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical properties; Aerosol photochemistry interactions; Mexico City air quality; Regional impact of megacity pollution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CITY; CLIMATE; MEXICO; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION;

MEXICO;

EID: 0034744984     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(00)00275-2     Document Type: Article

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