Spatiotemporal variability of ground-level ozone and influence of smoke in Treasure Valley, Idaho

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 124, Issue , 2013, Pages 44-52

  Kavouras, I G ^a,b   DuBois, D W ^a,c   Etyemezian, V ^a   Nikolich, G ^a  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Smoke; Transport; VOCs; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC OZONE; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS; GROUND-LEVEL OZONE; OZONE LEVELS; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TRANSPORT; VOCS; WILDFIRE; WILDFIRE SMOKE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FIRES; LANDFORMS; OZONE;

SMOKE;

AIR MASS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; SMOKE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WILDFIRE;

IDAHO; TREASURE VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873274381     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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