Detailed chemical analysis of regional-scale air pollution in western Portugal using an adapted version of MCM v3.1

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2024-2038

  Pinho, P G ^a   Lemos, L T ^a   Pio, C A ^b   Evtyugina, M G ^b   Nunes, T V ^b   Jenkin, M E ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF VISEU   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c Atmospheric Chemistry Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical mechanism evaluation; Field evaluation; Master Chemical Mechanism; Ozone modelling; Tropospheric chemistry

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MECHANISM EVALUATION; FIELD EVALUATION; MASTER CHEMICAL MECHANISM; OZONE MODELLING; TROPOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

AIR QUALITY; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; GASES; HYDROCARBONS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; TROPOSPHERE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER VAPOR;

AIR POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPOSPHERE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PORTUGAL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 60249098569     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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