Comparisons of modeled and observed isoprene concentrations in southeast Texas

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1922-1940

  Song, Jihee ^a   Vizuete, William ^b   Chang, Sunghye ^a   Allen, David ^a   Kimura, Yosuke ^a   Kemball Cook, Susan ^c   Yarwood, Greg ^c   Kioumourtzoglou, Marianthi Anna ^b   Atlas, Elliot ^d   Hansel, Armin ^e   Wisthaler, Armin ^e   McDonald Buller, Elena ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c ENVIRON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biogenic inventories; CAMx; GloBEIS inventory uncertainties; Isoprene

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BIOSPHERICS; HYDROCARBONS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

BIOGENIC INVENTORIES; GLOBEIS INVENTORY UNCERTAINTIES; ISOPRENE;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ISOPRENE;

AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BIOGENIC EMISSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION INVENTORY; ESTIMATION METHOD; ISOPRENE; VERTICAL MIXING; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETER; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RURAL AREA; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39149105951     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.11.016     Document Type: Article

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