New methods for evaluating meteorological models used in air quality applications

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 5073-5086

  Gilliam, Robert C ^a   Hogrefe, Christian ^b   Rao, S T ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation analysis; K Z filter; MM5; Model evaluation; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERROR ANALYSIS; POLLUTION;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; K-Z FILTER; MM5; MODEL EVALUATION;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR QUALITY; CORRELATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POLLUTANT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLOUD; EVALUATION; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; WIND;

EID: 33646476215     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.01.023     Document Type: Article

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