Air quality impacts of distributed power generation in the South Coast Air Basin of California 1: Scenario development and modeling analysis

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 5508-5521

  Rodriguez, M A ^a   Carreras Sospedra, M ^a   Medrano, M ^a   Brouwer, J ^a   Samuelsen, G S ^a   Dabdub, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality modeling; Distributed power generation; Ozone; PM2.5; South Coast Air Basin of California

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POWER GENERATION;

AIR QUALITY MODELING; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; PM2.5; SOUTH COAST AIR BASIN OF CALIFORNIA;

AIR QUALITY;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; POWER GENERATION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746891846     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.03.054     Document Type: Article

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