Domestic versus international contributions on 2050 ozone air quality: How much is convertible by regional control?

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 315-325

  Lei, Hang ^a,b   Wuebbles, Donald J ^a   Liang, Xin Zhong ^b,c   Olsen, Seth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Anthropogenic emission; Climate change; Ozone; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; CHEMISTRY MODELS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; EMISSION CHANGE; FUTURE CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL EMISSIONS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; LOCAL EMISSIONS; LOW EMISSION; OZONE CONCENTRATION; OZONE POLLUTION; QUALITY CHANGE; REGIONAL AIR QUALITY; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; SURFACE OZONE; UNCERTAINTY;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; FOSSIL FUELS;

OZONE;

FOSSIL FUEL; OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FOSSIL FUEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; OZONE; POLLUTION CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ARTICLE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER;

ASIA; EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872025601     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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