Relationships of coastal nocturnal boundary layer winds and turbulence to Houston ozone concentrations during TexAQS 2006

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Tucker, Sara C ^a,b   Banta, Robert M ^b   Langford, Andrew O ^b   Senff, Christoph J ^a,b   Brewer, W Alan ^b   Williams, Eric J ^a,b   Lerner, Brian M ^a,b   Osthoff, Hans D ^b,c   Hardesty, R Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COASTAL ZONES; MONITORING; OPTICAL RADAR; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SHIPS; WIND EFFECTS;

AMBIENT MONITORING; ATLANTIC COASTS; DOPPLER WIND LIDAR; FLOW REGIMES; HIGH WIND SPEED; HOUSTON; HOUSTON , TEXAS; IN-SITU; LIDAR DATA; LOW LEVEL JET; LOW WIND SPEED; MERIDIONAL WINDS; MONITORING NETWORK; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; NOCTURNAL JET; OZONE CONCENTRATION; OZONE MEASUREMENTS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SUBTROPICAL ANTICYCLONE; SYNOPTIC CONDITIONS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

AIR QUALITY; ANTICYCLONE; COASTAL ZONE; DOPPLER LIDAR; FLOW PATTERN; JET STREAM; MONITORING SYSTEM; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER; OZONE; PARAMETERIZATION; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; WEATHER STATION; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; BRAZORIA COUNTY; GALVESTON; HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953163578     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013169     Document Type: Article

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