Volatile chemical product emissions enhance ozone and modulate urban chemistry

MM Coggon, GI Gkatzelis… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Decades of air quality improvements have substantially reduced the motor vehicle
emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Today, volatile chemical products (VCPs) …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying and correcting interferences to PTR-ToF-MS measurements of isoprene and other urban volatile organic compounds

MM Coggon, CE Stockwell, MS Claflin… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - amt.copernicus.org
Proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-ToF-MS) is a technique
commonly used to measure ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in urban, rural, and …

COVID-19 Lockdowns Afford the First Satellite-Based Confirmation That Vehicles Are an Under-recognized Source of Urban NH3 Pollution in Los Angeles

H Cao, DK Henze, K Cady-Pereira… - … & Technology Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
In situ measurements have suggested vehicle emissions may dominate agricultural sources
of NH3 in many cities, which is alarming given the potential for urban NH3 to significantly …

[HTML][HTML] Using satellite observations of tropospheric NO< sub> 2</sub> columns to infer long-term trends in US NO< sub>< i> x</i></sub> emissions: the importance of …

RF Silvern, DJ Jacob, LJ Mickley… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
The National Emission Inventory (NEI) of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
reports a steady decrease of US NOx emissions over the 2005–2017 period at a rate of 0.1 …

Space‐Based Observational Constraints on NO2 Air Pollution Inequality From Diesel Traffic in Major US Cities

MAG Demetillo, C Harkins… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Air pollution disproportionately burdens communities of color and lower‐income
communities in US cities. We have generally lacked city‐wide concentration measurements …

Observing nitrogen dioxide air pollution inequality using high-spatial-resolution remote sensing measurements in Houston, Texas

MAG Demetillo, A Navarro, KK Knowles… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Houston, Texas is a major US urban and industrial area where poor air quality is unevenly
distributed and a disproportionate share is located in low-income, non-white, and Hispanic …

Evaluating the impact of chemical complexity and horizontal resolution on tropospheric ozone over the conterminous US with a global variable resolution chemistry …

RH Schwantes, FG Lacey, S Tilmes… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A new configuration of the Community Earth System Model (CESM)/Community Atmosphere
Model with full chemistry (CAM‐chem) supporting the capability of horizontal mesh …

Impacts of Soil NOx Emission on O3 Air Quality in Rural California

T Sha, X Ma, H Zhang, N Janechek… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen oxides (NO x) are a key precursor in O3 formation. Although stringent
anthropogenic NO x emission controls have been implemented since the early 2000s in the …

Ozone episodes during and after the 2018 Chinese National Day holidays in Guangzhou: Implications for the control of precursor VOCs

J Wang, Y Zhang, Z Wu, S Luo, W Song… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The impact of reducing industrial emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on ozone
(O 3) pollution is of wide concern particularly in highly industrialized megacities. In this …

A fuel-based method for updating mobile source emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic

C Harkins, BC McDonald, DK Henze… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown of many US States resulted in rapid
changes to motor vehicle traffic and their associated emissions. This presents a challenge …