Sensitivity of Urban Airshed Model (UAM-IV) calculated air pollutant concentrations to the vertical diffusion parameterization during convective meteorological situations

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1790-1803

  Nowacki, Peter ^a,b   Samson, Perry J ^a   Sillman, Sanford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; SMOG; URBAN AIRSHED MODEL; VERTICAL DIFFUSION;

USA, GEORGIA, ATLANTA;

EID: 0030404438     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<1790:SOUAMI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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