Relationship between VOC and NOx emissions and chemical production of tropospheric ozone in the Aburrá Valley (Colombia)

Chemosphere

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 881-888

  Toro, María Victoria ^a   Cremades, Lázaro V ^b   Calbó, Josep ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colombian Andes; Mesoscale; Ozone abatement; Photochemical model; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CHEMICAL MECHANISM; OZONE ABATEMENT; PHOTOCHEMICAL MODEL;

TROPOSPHERE;

NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CARBON EMISSION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE DEPLETION; REACTION KINETICS; TROPOSPHERE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COLOMBIA; DISPERSION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; AIR POLLUTANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VOLATILIZATION;

ABURRA VALLEY; ANTIOQUIA; COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; COLOMBIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN OXIDES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL; OZONE; TIME FACTORS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 33747884711     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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