Modeling the effect of biogenic hydrocarbon emissions in the San Francisco Bay area

Conference · Mon Jan 09 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5329693

Penner, J E

A complex urban-scale photochemical model for the San Francisco Bay Area was used to study the role of biogenic hydrocarbon emissions in urban and regional ozone formation. In complex models such as this, the photochemistry of hydrocarbons must be represented in a simplified manner, due to computational limitations. In order to check this representation, two ways of representing the photochemistry of isoprene, the primary biogenic emissions product, were explored. Box-model simulations of the San Francisco Bay Area are made with and without isoprene emissions for the simplified and the full chemical scheme. The simplified scheme was found to adequately simulate the chemistry of isoprene.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5329693
• Report Number(s): UCRL-89170; CONF-840374-1; ON: DE84005733
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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500200* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AIR POLLUTION
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
CHEMISTRY
DIENES
HYDROCARBONS
ISOPRENE
KINETICS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN OXIDES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
OZONE
PHOTOCHEMISTRY
POLLUTION
POLYENES
REACTION KINETICS
TERPENES
URBAN AREAS