Regional downscaling for air quality assessment: A reasonable proposition?

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1215-1227

  Gustafson Jr , William I ^a   Leung, L Ruby ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT; DIURNAL WIND PATTERNS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCUATION; REGIONAL DOWNSCALING;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 34548629266     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-88-8-1215     Document Type: Article

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