The airshed for ozone and fine particulate pollution in the Eastern United States

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 160, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 81-105

  Civerolo, Kevin L ^a   Mao, Huiting ^b   Rao, S Trivikrama ^b  

^a Bureau of Air Research   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Fine particulate matter; Ozone; Photochemical modeling; Space and time scales; Trajectory analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037270575     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-003-8767-6     Document Type: Article

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