Identification of the source of benzene concentrations at Texas City during SHARP using an adjoint neighborhood-scale transport model and a receptor model

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 8023-8031

  Buzcu Guven, Birnur ^a   Olaguer, Eduardo P ^a   Herndon, Scott C ^b   Kolb, Charles E ^b   Knighton, W Berk ^c   Cuclis, Alex E ^a  

^a HOUSTON ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

inverse model; source apportionment

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; FORMALDEHYDE; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; NITROGEN OXIDES; TANKS (CONTAINERS); VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AIR QUALITY MODELING; BENZENE CONCENTRATION; EMISSION INVENTORIES; HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS; INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES; INVERSE MODELING; POSITIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT;

BENZENE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BENZENE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FORMALDEHYDE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NITRIC OXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84882785281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50586     Document Type: Article

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