Satellite constraints of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from India based on OMI observations and WRF-Chem simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 423-428

  Ghude, Sachin D ^a,b   Pfister, Gabriele G ^b   Jena, Chinmay ^a   Van Der A, R J ^c   Emmons, Louisa K ^b   Kumar, Rajesh ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; NITROGEN OXIDES; SATELLITES;

COLUMN RETRIEVALS; EMISSION INVENTORIES; INVERSE TECHNIQUES; NITROGEN OXIDE EMISSIONS; NO 2; TOPDOWN; TOTAL NITROGEN; TROPOSPHERIC COLUMNS; TROPOSPHERIC NO; WRF/CHEM;

TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; HOT SPOT; NITROGEN OXIDES; POINT SOURCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA;

EID: 84874916611     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50065     Document Type: Article

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