Comparing prognostic and diagnostic meteorological fields and their impacts on photochemical air quality modeling

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1989-2010

  Kumar, Naresh ^a,b   Russell, Armistead G ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SONOMA TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic; Meteorology; Ozone; Photochemical; Prognostic

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; PHOTOCHEMICAL SMOG; POLICY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS;

DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; PROGNOSTIC MODELING;

AIR QUALITY;

AIR QUALITY; DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS; PHOTOCHEMICAL MODEL; PROGNOSTIC MODELLING;

USA, CALIFORNIA;

EID: 0030453024     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(95)00179-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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