Simulating regional-scale ozone climatology over the eastern United States: Model evaluation results

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 2627-2638

  Hogrefe, C ^a,c   Biswas, J ^a   Lynn, B ^b   Civerolo, K ^c   Ku, J Y ^c   Rosenthal, J ^b   Rosenzweig, C ^d   Goldberg, R ^d   Kinney, P L ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Bureau of Air Research   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Interannual variability; Map typing analysis; Model evaluation; Regional climate modeling; Regional scale air quality modeling

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; SPACE RESEARCH; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FLUCTUATIONS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGICAL MODEL; OZONE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; OZONE; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EVALUATION; HEAT; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; OZONE LAYER; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIMULATION; SPACE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1942535035     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.02.033     Document Type: Article

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