Modeling uncertainties for tropospheric nitrogen dioxide columns affecting satellite-based inverse modeling of nitrogen oxides emissions

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 12255-12275

  Lin, J T ^a   Liu, Z ^b   Zhang, Q ^c   Liu, H ^d   Mao, J ^e,f   Zhuang, G ^g  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; EOS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84871764559     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-12255-2012     Document Type: Article

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