Chemical nonlinearities in relating intercontinental ozone pollution to anthropogenic emissions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Wu, Shiliang ^a,b   Duncan, Bryan N ^c,d   Jacob, Daniel J ^a,g   Fiore, Arlene M ^e   Wild, Oliver ^f  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; CHEMICAL REGIMES; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; CURRENT LEVELS; EMISSION REDUCTION; INTERCONTINENTAL TRANSPORT; MODEL STUDY; NON-LINEARITY; NON-METHANE VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OZONE POLLUTION; OZONE PRODUCTION; OZONE RESPONSE; SENSITIVITY SIMULATION; STRONG NONLINEARITY; SURFACE OZONE;

EMISSION CONTROL; OZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AIR POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION CONTROL; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PERTURBATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 65649121530     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036607     Document Type: Article

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