Isoprene emission factors for subtropical street trees for regional air quality modeling

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 234-243

  Dunn Johnston, Kristina A ^a   Kreuzwieser, Jürgen ^b   Hirabayashi, Satoshi ^a,c   Plant, Lyndal ^d   Rennenberg, Heinz ^b   Schmidt, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Brisbane City Council   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; ISOPRENE; QUALITY CONTROL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; GROUND-LEVEL OZONE; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG; REGIONAL AIR QUALITY; REGIONAL AIR QUALITY MODELING; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ISOPRENE; OZONE; 1,3 BUTADIENE; HEMITERPENE; PENTANE;

AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BUCKINGHAMIA CELSISSIMA; HARPULLIA PENDULA; MYRTACEAE; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG; PROTEACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; TREE; URBAN AREA; XANTHOSTEMON CHRYSANTHUS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; AUSTRALIA; BUTADIENES; CITIES; HEMITERPENES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PENTANES; TREES;

EID: 84957586005     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2015.01.0051     Document Type: Article

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