Comparison between spatially resolved airborne flux measurements and emission inventories of volatile organic compounds in Los Angeles

EY Pfannerstill, C Arata, Q Zhu… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Los Angeles is a major hotspot for ozone and particulate matter air pollution in the United
States. Ozone and PM2. 5 in this region have not improved substantially for the past decade …

Influence of wildfire on urban ozone: An observationally constrained box modeling study at a site in the Colorado front range

PS Rickly, MM Coggon, KC Aikin… - … science & technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Increasing trends in biomass burning emissions significantly impact air quality in North
America. Enhanced mixing ratios of ozone (O3) in urban areas during smoke-impacted …

Temperature-dependent emissions dominate aerosol and ozone formation in Los Angeles

EY Pfannerstill, C Arata, Q Zhu, BC Schulze, R Ward… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Despite declines in transportation emissions, urban North America and Europe still face
unhealthy air pollution levels. This has challenged conventional understanding of the …

Evaluating NOx emissions and their effect on O3 production in Texas using TROPOMI NO2 and HCHO

D Goldberg, M Harkey, B de Foy, L Judd… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
The Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on the Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P)
satellite is a valuable source of information to monitor the NOx emissions that adversely …

NO2 emissions from oil refineries in the Mississippi Delta

M Filonchyk, MP Peterson - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Of the> 17,943 thousand barrels per calendar day (bbl/d) of oil refining capacity
located in the US, the Petroleum Administration for Defense District 3 (PADD-3) region has …

Improved Spatial Resolution in Modeling of Nitrogen Oxide Concentrations in the Los Angeles Basin

KA Yu, M Li, C Harkins, J He, Q Zhu… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The extent to which emission control technologies and policies have reduced anthropogenic
NO x emissions from motor vehicles is large but uncertain. We evaluate a fuel-based …

COVID-19 perturbation on US air quality and human health impact assessment

J He, C Harkins, K O'Dell, M Li, C Francoeur… - PNAS …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The COVID-19 stay-at-home orders issued in the United States caused significant
reductions in traffic and economic activities. To understand the pandemic's perturbations on …

State-of-the-science data and methods need to guide place-based efforts to reduce air pollution inequity

JM Gohlke, MH Harris, A Roy… - Environmental …, 2023 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Recently enacted environmental justice policies in the United States at the
state and federal level emphasize addressing place-based inequities, including persistent …

Midlatitude ozone depletion and air quality impacts from industrial halogen emissions in the Great Salt Lake Basin

CC Womack, WS Chace, S Wang… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report aircraft observations of extreme levels of HCl and the dihalogens Cl2, Br2, and
BrCl in an industrial plume near the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Complete depletion of O3 was …

The Impact of Volatile Chemical Products, Other VOCs, and NOx on Peak Ozone in the Lake Michigan Region

M Abdi‐Oskouei, B Roozitalab… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High concentrations of ozone along the coastline of Lake Michigan are a persistent air
quality management challenge. Complementing observations during the 2017 Lake …