Fog chemistry in the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast corridor

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2048-2061

  Raja, Suresh ^a   Raghunathan, Ravikrishna ^b   Yu, Xiao Ying ^a   Lee, Taehyoung ^a   Chen, Jing ^c   Kommalapati, Raghava R ^d   Murugesan, Karthik ^d   Shen, Xinhua ^a   Qingzhong, Yuan ^c   Valsaraj, Kalliat T ^c   Collett Jr , Jeffrey L ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Air pollution; Fog; Gulf Coast; Organics; Sulfate

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC CARBON; PARAFFINS; PH EFFECTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

FOG CHEMISTRY; LINEAR ALKANES;

FOG;

ALKANE; AROMATIC CARBOXYLIC ACID; CALCIUM; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CHLORIDE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; MAGNESIUM; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; SODIUM; SULFATE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLOUD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FOG; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PH;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLOUD; DENSITY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENT; FOG; LIQUID; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEASHORE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; UNITED STATES;

BATON ROUGE; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; HOUSTON; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39749129711     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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