Application of MM5 and CAMx4 to local scale dispersion of particulate matter for the city of Christchurch, New Zealand

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 327-338

  Titov, Mikhail ^a   Sturman, Andrew P ^a   Zawar Reza, Peyman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Air pollution; CAMx4; CAPS 2000; Christchurch; Cold air drainage; Conceptual model; Index of agreement; MM5; PM10

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; DISPERSIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

CHRISTCHURCH; COLD AIR DRAINAGE; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; INDEX OF AGREEMENT; MESOSCALE MODEL VERSION 5 (MM5);

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DISPERSION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISPERSION; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METEOROLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WINTER;

AUSTRALASIA; CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; CHRISTCHURCH; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 33845408950     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.08.012     Document Type: Article

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