Area of influence (AOI) sensitivity analysis: Application to Atlanta, Georgia

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 5605-5617

  Napelenok, Sergey L ^a   Habermacher, Florian D ^b   Akhtar, Farhan ^c   Hu, Yongtao ^a   Russell, Armistead G ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; AOI; Area of influence; Atmospheric modeling; Direct decoupled method; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; OZONE; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AREA OF INFLUENCE (AOI) ANALYSIS; ELEMENTAL CARBON; PRECURSOR EMISSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE;

AIR QUALITY; AMMONIA; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; METROPOLITAN AREA; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SULFATE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); OZONE LAYER; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547137675     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.03.006     Document Type: Article

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