Attribution of primary formaldehyde and sulfur dioxide at Texas City during SHARP/formaldehyde and olefins from large industrial releases (FLAIR) using an adjoint chemistry transport model

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 11,317-11,326

  Olaguer, Eduardo P ^a   Herndon, Scott C ^b   Buzcu Guven, Birnur ^a   Kolb, Charles E ^b   Brown, Michael J ^c   Cuclis, Alex E ^a  

^a HOUSTON ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

adjoint model; emissions; formaldehyde; inverse modeling; source attribution

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AIR QUALITY; COMBUSTION; ESTIMATION; FORMALDEHYDE; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INDUSTRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SULFUR;

ADJOINT MODELS; CHEMISTRY TRANSPORT MODEL; DE-SULFURIZATION PROCESS; DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUIDIZED CATALYTIC CRACKING UNIT; INVERSE MODELING; REAL-TIME OBSERVATION; SOURCE ATTRIBUTION;

SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CATALYSIS; COMBUSTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMISSION; FORMALDEHYDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887184683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50794     Document Type: Article

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