Top-down estimate of mercury emissions in China using four-dimensional variational data assimilation

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2804-2819

  Pan, Li ^a   Chai, Tianfeng ^a   Carmichael, Gregory R ^a   Tang, Youhua ^a   Streets, David ^b   Woo, Jung Hun ^c   Friedli, Hans R ^d   Radke, Lawrence F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NESCAUM   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

4D Var; China; Data assimilation; Inventory evaluation; Mercury

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHINA; DATA ACQUISITION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS;

CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; INVENTORY EVALUATION;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DATA ASSIMILATION; EMISSION INVENTORY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION MONITORING; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33947396710     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.11.048     Document Type: Article

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