Analysis of diurnal and seasonal behavior of surface ozone and its precursors (NOx) at a semi-arid rural site in southern India

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1081-1094

  Suresh Kumar Reddy, B ^a,c   Raghavendra Kumar, K ^a,d   Balakrishnaiah, G ^b   Rama Gopal, K ^a   Reddy, R R ^a   Sivakumar, V ^d   Lingaswamy, A P ^a   Arafath, S Md ^a   Umadevil, K ^a   Pavan Kumari, S ^a   Nazeer Ahammed, Y ^e   Shyam Lal, S ^f  

^a SRI KRISHNADEVARAYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e YOGI VEMANA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Nitrogen dioxide; Nox; Oxidant; Surface ozone; Tropospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; NITROGEN DIOXIDES; NOX; OXIDANT CONCENTRATIONS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SURFACE OZONE; SURFACE OZONE CONCENTRATIONS; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FOG; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDANTS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

OZONE;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; DIURNAL VARIATION; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OXIDANT; OZONE; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; TROPOSPHERE;

INDIA;

EID: 84874974475     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2012.03.0055     Document Type: Article

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