Linking the Eta Model with the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system to build a national air quality forecasting system

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 367-384

  Otte, Tanya L ^a   Pouliot, George ^a   Pleim, Jonathan E ^a   Young, Jeffrey O ^a   Schere, Kenneth L ^a   Wong, David C ^b   Lee, Pius C S ^c   Tsidulko, Marina ^c   McQueen, Jeffery T ^d   Davidson, Paula ^a   Mathur, Rohit ^a   Chuang, Hui Ya ^c   DiMego, Geoff ^a   Seaman, Nelson L ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Lockheed Martin Information Technology   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; OZONE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

AIR QUALITY FORECASTING (AQF); COMMUNITY MULTISCALE AIR QUALITY (CMAQ); HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; NUMERICAL MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 23144442008     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF855.1     Document Type: Article

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