Modeling the ETEX plume dispersion with the Canadian emergency response model

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4335-4341

  D'Amours, Réal ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ATMES II; Eulerian model; K diffusion; Long range transport; Model validation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EULERIAN MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISPERSION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CANADA; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0032403144     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(98)00182-4     Document Type: Article

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