Assessing the effects of transboundary ozone pollution between Ontario, Canada and New York, USA

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 403-411

  Brankov, Elvira ^a   Henry, Robert F ^a   Civerolo, Kevin L ^a   Hao, Winston ^a   Rao, S T ^b   Misra, P K ^c   Bloxam, Robert ^c   Reid, Neville ^c  

^a Division of Air Resources   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Ozone; Photochemical modeling; Trajectory modeling; Transboundary pollution

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; POLLUTION;

TRANSBOUNDARY OZONE POLLUTION;

OZONE;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CANADA; CONFERENCE PAPER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; RIVER; UNITED STATES;

CANADA; NEW YORK; ONTARIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037408797     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(03)00017-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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