Evaluation of back trajectories associated with ozone transport during the 1993 North Atlantic Regional Experiment

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 825-837

  Fast, Jerome D ^a   Berkowitz, Carl M ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer processes; Diffusion; Lagrangian model; Long range transport; Mesoscale model; Trajectory; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CALCULATION; CANADA; ERROR; PLUME; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND;

DISPERSION; OZONE; TURBULENCE;

DIFFUSION; LAGRANGIAN MODEL; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; NARE; OZONE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRAJECTORY; TURBULENCE; WIND;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DIFFUSION IN GASES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SAMPLING;

AIR QUALITY STANDARD TOOLS; BACK TRAJECTORIES; MESOSCALE MODEL;

AIR POLLUTION;

EID: 0030617214     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(96)00256-7     Document Type: Article

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