Effect of rain scavenging on altitudinal distribution of soluble gaseous pollutants in the atmosphere

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2427-2433

  Elperin, Tov ^a   Fominykh, Andrew ^a   Krasovitov, Boris ^a   Vikhansky, Alexander ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altitudinal distribution; Gas absorption; Rain scavenging; Scavenging coefficient; Soluble gaseous pollutants

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; BELOW-CLOUD; CONVECTIVE DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DROPLET SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; GASEOUS POLLUTANTS; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; LINEAR DISTRIBUTION; LOG-NORMAL; NONSTATIONARY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING; SCAVENGING COEFFICIENT; SCAVENGING COEFFICIENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FOG; GAS ABSORPTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLLUTION; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

RAIN;

AMMONIA; RAIN; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ALTITUDE; AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; RAINFALL; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLOUD; GAS; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79953281569     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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