Assessment of the role of nitrogen oxides in nonurban ozone formation

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6060455

Altshuller, A P

Technical issues related to ozone and other photochemically generated products formed in the atmosphere is presented. An earlier survey was carried out to examine the hypothesis that NO(sup x) was the limiting precursor species with respect to photochemical formation of O3 over nonurban areas. If this hypothesis could be proved, it would indicate that increases in NO(sup x) concentrations could lead to higher concentration levels of nonurban O3. Because of the fragmentary knowledge of the interactions between NO(sup x) and O3 in nonurban areas, the authors of the survey could not arrive at any definite conclusions. Based on these recent studies and earlier results a reevaluation of the factors influencing rural O3 formation destruction and the role of the NOx in O3 formation is provided in the present assessment.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6060455
• Report Number(s): PB-85-173680; EPA-600/M-84-004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AIR POLLUTION
AIR QUALITY
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN OXIDES
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
OZONE
PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS
POLLUTION
SMOG
SYNTHESIS