Global sensitivity analysis of the regional atmospheric chemical mechanism: An application of random sampling-high dimensional model representation to urban oxidation chemistry

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 11162-11170

  Chen, Shuang ^a   Brune, William H ^a   Oluwole, Oluwayemisi O ^b   Kolb, Charles E ^b   Bacon, Fred ^b   Li, Genyuan ^c   Rabitz, Hersch ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODELING; CHEMICAL MECHANISM; DIMENSIONAL MODEL; FIELD DATA; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; KINETIC RATES; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL PREDICTION; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; OXIDATION CHEMISTRY; PHOTOCHEMICAL MODELING; PHOTOCHEMICAL MODELS; PRODUCT YIELDS; TYPICAL DAY; UNCERTAINTY SOURCES; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL;

AIR QUALITY; OLEFINS; PHOTOLYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; XYLENE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

HYDROPEROXYL RADICAL; HYDROXYL GROUP; PEROXY RADICAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DECISION MAKING; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS METHOD; MEASUREMENT; OXIDATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; BUTADIENES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEMITERPENES; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PENTANES; XYLENES;

EID: 84870026329     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301565w     Document Type: Article

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