A plume-in-grid approach to characterize air quality impacts of aircraft emissions at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 9285-9302

  Rissman, J ^a   Arunachalam, S ^b   Woody, M ^b   West, J J ^b   Bendor, T ^c   Binkowski, F S ^b  

^a Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIRCRAFT EMISSION; AIRPORT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PARTICULATE MATTER; PLUME; POLLUTANT SOURCE;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

NEPTUNIA;

EID: 84884245849     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-9285-2013     Document Type: Article

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