Estimating the uncertainty of a Lagrangian photochemical air quality simulation model caused by inexact meteorological input data

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-40

  Wotawa, G ^a   Stohl, A ^a   Kromp Kolb, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ESTIMATION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OZONE; SIMULATION; WIND;

GLOBAL UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN PHOTOCHEMICAL AIR QUALITY SIMULATION MODEL; MODEL VALIDATION; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PEROXIACETYLNITRATE;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031187602     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00015-X     Document Type: Article

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