Impacts of anthropogenic emissions and cold air pools on urban to montane gradients of snowpack ion concentrations in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 98, Issue , 2014, Pages 231-241

  Hall, Steven J ^a   Maurer, Gregory ^a   Hoch, Sebastian W ^a   Taylor, Raili ^a,b   Bowling, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Inversion; Montane; Nitrogen deposition; PM 2.5; Snow chemistry; Urban

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOSYSTEMS; FOG; IONS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SEA LEVEL; SNOW; STREAM FLOW; NITROGEN;

INVERSION; MONTANE; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; SNOW CHEMISTRY; URBAN;

URBAN GROWTH;

AMMONIA; CHLORIDE; ION; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; SNOW; SODIUM;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; SNOWPACK; URBAN AREA; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; COLD AIR; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EMISSION; ION; MONTANE FOREST; NITROGEN COMPOUND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URBAN POLLUTION;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COLD AIR; FOG; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WET DEPOSITION; DRY DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NORTH AMERICA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SALT LAKE CITY; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WASATCH RANGE; WASATCH PLATEAU;

EID: 84906842397     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.08.076     Document Type: Article

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