Investigating the response of East Asian ozone to Chinese emission changes using a linear approach

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 475-482

  Yamaji, Kazuyo ^a   Uno, Itsushi ^b   Irie, Hitoshi ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

East Asian scale transport; NO 2 tropospheric vertical column density; O 3 chemistry; Tropospheric O 3

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; COMMUNITY MULTI-SCALE AIR QUALITIES; CURRENT EMISSIONS; EAST ASIA; EAST ASIAN-SCALE TRANSPORT; EAST CHINA; EMISSION CHANGE; HONG-KONG; LINEAR APPROACH; LINEAR FEATURE; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL SIMULATION; REGIONAL CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SOURCE-RECEPTOR RELATIONSHIPS; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; SURFACE OBSERVATION; TRANS-BOUNDARY; TROPOSPHERIC NO; TROPOSPHERIC O; VERTICAL COLUMN DENSITIES;

AIR QUALITY; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; POLLUTION CONTROL; TROPOSPHERE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EMISSION CONTROL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; POLLUTION POLICY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHINA; COMMUNITY MULTISCALE AIR QUALITY MODEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; JAPAN; NORTH KOREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH KOREA; SPRING; SUMMER; TAIWAN;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84859931251     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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