Development and application of an urban tree air quality score for photochemical pollution episodes using the Birmingham, United Kingdom, area as a case study

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6730-6738

  Donovan, Rossa G ^b   Stewart, Hope E ^c   Owen, Susan M ^a   Mackenzie, A Robert ^a   Hewitt, C Nicholas ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; IMPURITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY MODEL; BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (BVOC); URBAN FOREST; URBAN TREE AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMONITORING;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN POPULATION;

AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL; OZONE; TIME FACTORS; TREES; VOLATILIZATION;

BIRMINGHAM [ENGLAND]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

LARIX; POPULUS; QUERCUS; SALIX;

EID: 24644478035     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050581y     Document Type: Article

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