Nighttime air quality under desert conditions

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 114, Issue , 2015, Pages 102-111

  Goliff, Wendy S ^a   Luria, Menachem ^b   Blake, Donald R ^c   Zielinska, Barbara ^d   Hallar, Gannet ^d   Valente, Ralph J ^e   Lawson, Charlene V ^f,g   Stockwell, William R ^d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY   (United States)

^f HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

0 D modeling; Free troposphere; Nighttime chemistry; Nitrate radical; Tropospheric measurements

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FIRES; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; NITRATES; OLEFINS; REACTION KINETICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ALDEHYDE REACTIONS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; FREE TROPOSPHERE; INORGANIC CHEMISTRY; NITRATE RADICALS; NITRIC ACID FORMATION; OPTICAL ABSORBANCE; STABLE NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

ACETONE; ALDEHYDE; ALKENE DERIVATIVE; CARBON MONOXIDE; ISOPRENE; NITRATE; NITRIC ACID; PINENE;

ALDEHYDE; ALKENE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESERT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NITRATE; NITRIC ACID; RADICAL; TROPOSPHERE; URBAN AREA; WILDFIRE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BOUNDARY LAYER; CASE STUDY; DESERT; DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL ABSORBANCE SPECTROMETRY; DRY DEPOSITION; HUMIDITY; INORGANIC CHEMISTRY; NIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; TROPOSPHERE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WATER VAPOR;

NEVADA; RENO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930685592     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.05.041     Document Type: Article

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