The effects of rapid urbanization on the levels in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide and ozone over East China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 77, Issue , 2013, Pages 558-567

  Huang, Jianping ^a,b   Zhou, Chenhong ^a   Lee, Xuhui ^a,c   Bao, Yunxuan ^a   Zhao, Xiaoyan ^a   Fung, Jimmy ^d   Richter, Andreas ^e   Liu, Xiong ^f   Zheng, Yiqi ^g  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrogen dioxide; Ozone; Satellite retrieval; Seasonal change; Troposphere; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

2008 BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; NITROGEN DIOXIDES; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SEASONAL CHANGES; TROPOSPHERIC NITROGEN DIOXIDE; URBANIZATION;

NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

TROPOSPHERE;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DECADAL VARIATION; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHINA; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; TROPOSPHERE; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WINTER;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84879531809     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.05.030     Document Type: Article

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