TAPM: A practical approach to prognostic meteorological and air pollution modelling

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 737-752

  Hurley, Peter J ^a   Physick, William L ^a   Luhar, Ashok K ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air pollution modelling; Chemical transport modelling; Dispersion modelling; Meteorological modelling; TAPM; Tracer datasets; Urban modelling; Verification studies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; WAKES;

COASTAL AREAS; COMPLEX TERRAIN; COMPUTING RESOURCES; DATASETS;

AIR POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; METEOROLOGY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRACER;

NEPTUNIA;

EID: 10644233234     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.04.006     Document Type: Article

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