Vertical profile of ozone and accompanying air pollutant concentrations observed at a downwind foothill site of industrial and urban areas

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 421-434

  Tseng, Kuo Hsin ^a   Chen, Chien Lung ^b   Lin, Min Der ^a   Chang, Ken Hui ^c   Tsuang, Ben Jei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FORTUNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Nocturnal inversion; Ozone; Tethersonde system; Valley mountain wind circulation; Vertical profile

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; AIR POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; EMISSION INVENTORIES; NITROGEN DIOXIDES; NITROGEN MONOXIDE; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; NOCTURNAL INVERSION; OZONE CONCENTRATION; OZONE EPISODES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; POINT SOURCES; RURAL SITE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE OZONE; TETHERED BALLOON; TETHERSONDE SYSTEM; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREAS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND VECTORS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LANDFORMS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AIR POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; EMISSION INVENTORY; HUMIDITY; NITROGEN OXIDES; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; URBAN AREA; VERTICAL PROFILE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

TAICHUNG BASIN; TAIWAN;

EID: 77952791316     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2009.04.0024     Document Type: Article

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