Source apportionment of biogenic contributions to ozone formation over the United States

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 164, Issue , 2017, Pages 8-19

  Zhang, Rui ^a,d   Cohan, Alexander ^b   Pour Biazar, Arastoo ^c   Cohan, Daniel S ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogenic emissions; CAMx; Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES); Ozone; Ozone Source Apportionment Technology (OSAT); Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR)

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; ISOPRENE; NITROGEN OXIDES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BIOGENIC EMISSION; CAMX; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT;

OZONE;

FORMALDEHYDE; ISOPRENE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION CONTROL; FORMATION MECHANISM; GOES; ISOPRENE; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SATELLITE DATA; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CANOPY; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; VELOCITY; WIND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85020051001     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.05.044     Document Type: Article

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