Long-term measurements of NO3 radical at a semiarid urban site: 1. Extreme concentration events and their oxidation capacity

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9117-9123

  Asaf, David ^a   Pedersen, Daniel ^a   Matveev, Valeri ^a   Peleg, Mordechai ^a   Kern, Christoph ^b   Zingler, Jutta ^b,c   Platt, Ulrich ^b   Luria, Menachem ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OXIDANTS; AVERAGE POTENTIAL; DETECTION LIMITS; DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; EXTREME EVENTS; GAS-PHASE REACTIONS; HEIDELBERG; JERUSALEM; JOINT MEASUREMENT; LONG-PATH; LONG-TERM MEASUREMENTS; MAXIMUM VALUES; NITRATE RADICALS; OH RADICAL; OXIDATION CAPACITY; OXIDATION POTENTIALS; OZONE CONCENTRATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; TROPOSPHERIC OXIDANTS; URBAN LOCATIONS; URBAN SITE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FREE RADICALS; GAS ABSORPTION; HYDROCARBONS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OXIDANTS; OXIDATION; OZONE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

HYDROCARBON; NITRATE; OZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NITRATE; OPTICAL METHOD; OXIDATION; OZONE; SEMIARID REGION; TROPOSPHERE; URBAN AREA; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; HUMIDITY; HYDROLYSIS; NIGHT; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; SEMIARID CLIMATE; TROPOSPHERE; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; FREE RADICALS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ISRAEL; JERUSALEM [ISRAEL]; JERUSALEM [JERUSALEM (DST)];

EID: 72849109599     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900798b     Document Type: Article

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