Can further mitigation of ammonia emissions reduce exceedances of particulate matter air quality standards?

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 44, Issue , 2014, Pages 149-163

  Bessagnet, Bertrand ^a   Beauchamp, Maxime ^a   Guerreiro, Cristina ^b   de Leeuw, Frank ^c   Tsyro, Svetlana ^d   Colette, Augustin ^a   Meleux, Frédérik ^a   Rouïl, Laurence ^a   Ruyssenaars, Paul ^c   Sauter, Ferd ^c   Velders, Guus J M ^c   Foltescu, Valentin L ^e   van Aardenne, John ^e  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^e EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Ammonia; Chemistry transport model; Emission scenarios; Gothenburg Protocol

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; FERTILIZER;

AGRICULTURE; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EVALUATION STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MANURE; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION KINETICS; STORAGE; EUROPE; SIMULATION;

EID: 84906083626     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.07.011     Document Type: Article

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