Performance and diagnostic evaluation of ozone predictions by the eta-community multiscale air quality forecast system during the 2002 new England air quality study

Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1459-1471

  Yu, Shaocai ^a,b   Mathur, Rohit ^a,c   Kang, Daiwen ^a,b   Schere, Kenneth ^a,c   Eder, Brian ^a,c   Pleim, Jonathan ^a,c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AIR QUALITY SYSTEM (AQS) NETWORK; DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION; REAL-TIME AIR QUALITY FORECASTING SYSTEMS;

AIR POLLUTION;

OZONE;

AIR MONITOR; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORECASTING; GOVERNMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TROPOSPHERE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845916796     PISSN: 10962247     EISSN: 21622906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473289.2006.10464554     Document Type: Article

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