A comparison of CMAQ HONO predictions with observations from the Northeast Oxidant and Particle Study

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 5760-5770

  Sarwar, Golam ^a   Roselle, Shawn J ^b   Mathur, Rohit ^b   Appel, Wyat ^b   Dennis, Robin L ^b   Vogel, Bernhard ^c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emissions; Heterogeneous reaction; Homogeneous reaction; Nitrous acid; Surface photolysis reaction

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; BLOCK CODES; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FORECASTING; GAS EMISSIONS; GASES; INORGANIC ACIDS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OXIDANTS; OZONE; PHASE INTERFACES; PHOTOLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; COMMUNITY MULTI-SCALE AIR QUALITY (CMAQ); DIRECT EMISSIONS; EMISSIONS (ASPHALT); GAS-PHASE REACTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS; HYDROXYL RADICAL (OH); MEAN ERROR (ME); MODEL PREDICTIONS; MODEL RESULTS; NITROUS ACIDS; ROOT MEAN-SQUARE ERROR (RMSE);

SURFACE REACTIONS;

AMMONIA; NITROUS ACID; OZONE; SULFATE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMISSION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NITRIC ACID; NITROUS OXIDE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OXIDANT; PHOTOLYSIS; PREDICTION;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 46749121815     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.12.065     Document Type: Article

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