Summertime state-level source-receptor relationships between nitrogen oxides emissions and surface ozone concentrations over the continental United States

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 7976-7984

  Tong, Daniel Q ^a,d,e   Mauzerall, Denise L ^a,b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ALTERNATIVE FUELS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDES; OZONE;

BASE-LINES; CLEAN AIR INTERSTATE RULES; COMMUNITY MULTISCALE AIR QUALITIES; CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES; EMISSION SOURCES; GEOGRAPHIC RANGES; LEVEL SURFACES; LOCAL EMISSIONS; NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS; NITROGEN OXIDES EMISSIONS; SURFACE OZONE CONCENTRATIONS;

AIR POLLUTION;

NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PERTURBATION;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; UNITED STATES;

AIR; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; SEASONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSPORTATION; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55349094308     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es7027636     Document Type: Article

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