Increasing importance of deposition of reduced nitrogen in the United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 5874-5879

  Li, Yi ^a   Schichtel, Bret A ^b   Walker, John T ^c   Schwede, Donna B ^d   Chen, Xi ^c   Lehmann, Christopher M B ^e   Puchalski, Melissa A ^d   Gay, David A ^e   Collett, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Ammonia; Dry deposition; Nitrogen oxides; Wet deposition

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN; EXHAUST GAS; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN OXIDE; POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; DRY DEPOSITION; MEASUREMENT; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; UNITED STATES; WET DEPOSITION; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXHAUST GAS; HUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POLLUTANT; TRENDS;

AGRICULTURE; AMMONIA; ATMOSPHERE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; NITRATES; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; UNITED STATES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84969761328     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525736113     Document Type: Article

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