Weekday/weekend ozone differences: What can we learn from them?

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 772-788

  Heuss, Jon M ^a   Kahlbaum, Dennis F ^a   Wolff, George T ^b  

^a Air Improvement Resource Inc   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OZONE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; REDUCTION;

NATIONAL ANALYSIS;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXHAUST GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038354876     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473289.2003.10466227     Document Type: Article

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