Sources and Impacts of Atmospheric NH3: Current Understanding and Frontiers for Modeling, Measurements, and Remote Sensing in North America

Current Pollution Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 95-116

  Zhu, Liye ^a,b   Henze, Daven K ^a   Bash, Jesse O ^c   Cady Pereira, Karen E ^d   Shephard, Mark W ^e   Luo, Ming ^f   Capps, Shannon L ^a,c  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Bidirectional exchange; Diurnal variability; Low earth orbit and geostationary remote sensing; Measurements techniques; North America; Sources and impacts

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042580596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40726-015-0010-4     Document Type: Review

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