Diagnosis of air quality through observation and modeling of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as pollution tracers

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 56-63

  Liu, Wen Tzu ^a   Hsieh, Hsin Cheng ^a   Chen, Sheng Po ^a   Chang, Julius S ^a   Lin, Neng Huei ^a   Chang, Chih Chung ^b   Wang, Jia Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CFC; PAMS AQM; VOC

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR QUALITY MODELS; COASTAL SITES; INDUSTRIAL SOURCES; ON-LINE MEASUREMENT; PAMS-AQM; POLLUTION TRACERS; RAPID CHANGES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN TRAFFIC;

AIR QUALITY; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CHLOROFLUOROCARBON; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CFC; COASTAL ZONE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACER; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); MASS; METEOROLOGY; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84859899753     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.03.017     Document Type: Article

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