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Science 12 January 1968:
Vol. 159. no. 3811, pp. 192 - 194
DOI: 10.1126/science.159.3811.192
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Urban Haze: The Extent of Automotive Contribution

W. E. Buchan 1 and R. J. Charlson 1

1 Departments of Atmospheric Sciences and Civil Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle 98105

Observation of the correlation between nitrogen oxides and the extinction coefficient of atmospheric air suggests that the automobile exhaust aerosol (nonphotochemical) may be important to visibility in cities.

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