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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Geophys Res Atmos. 2018 Mar 27;123(6):3304–3320. doi: 10.1002/2017jd027688

Table 1.

List and Description of Sector Tags Tacked in the Source Apportionment Modeling and Associated CO:NOx Ratios and Total CO and NOx Emissions

Emitted molar ratio of CO:NOx Emitted domain-wide mass (1,000 tons)
Tag Description Seven countiesa Domain wide CO NOxb
EGU Electrical generating units at power plants 0.3 0.5 7 23
NONEGU Point sources other than power plants 11.5 2.2 12 9
NONPT Nonpoint area sources 2.9 4.5 10 4
OILGAS Oil and gas operations (point and area sources) 0.9 1.2 2 3
NONROAD Nonroad mobile equipment such as construction equipment and lawn and garden equipment 21.9 19.4 222 19
ONGAS On-road vehicles powered by gasoline 13.8 13.7 199 24
ONDIESL On-road vehicles powered by diesel fuel 1.0 0.8 10 20
ONOTHER On-road vehicles powered by other fuels 20.7 21.5 7 0.5
MARINE Commercial marine vessels (C1, C2, and C3 classes of vessels) 0.1 0.2 1 10
BIOGEN Biogenic emissions from vegetation and agricultural soil 16.3c 20.9c 43 3
PTFIRE Wildland fires (prescribed and wildfires) 102.3 87.5 11 0.2
OTHR All other emissions sources within the model domain 44.7 63.0 0.5 0.01
BCON Boundary conditions representing lateral inflow from sources outside of the modeling domain N/A N/A N/A N/A
ICON Initial conditions N/A N/A N/A N/A

Note. DISCOVER-AQ = Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality.

a

Ratio of CO:NOx calculated for emissions in the seven Maryland counties covered by the DISCOVER-AQ flight track: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Cecil, Harford, Howard, and Prince George.

b

Emitting NOx mass is calculated assuming all NOx in the form of NO2.

c

Ratios from the BIOGEN source category include NO emissions from soil in agricultural areas and CO emissions from vegetation (predominantly trees), so this ratio does not represent co-emitted CO and NOx from the same sources.