Using air quality modeling to study source-receptor relationships between nitrogen oxides emissions and ozone exposures over the United States

Environment International

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1109-1117

  Tong, Daniel Q ^a,b   Muller, Nicholas Z ^c   Kan, Haidong ^d   Mendelsohn, Robert O ^e  

^a SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cap and trade; CMAQ; Exposure modeling; Ozone exposure; Source receptor; Transboundary transport

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; COMMERCE; EMISSION CONTROL; NITROGEN OXIDES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SURVEYS;

CAP AND TRADE; CMAQ; EXPOSURE MODELING; OZONE EXPOSURES; SOURCE-RECEPTOR; TRANS-BOUNDARY;

OZONE;

NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMISSION INVENTORY; EMISSIONS TRADING; HEALTH IMPACT; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; POLICY REFORM; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION POLICY; REGIONAL PLANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349308231     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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