Modelling the regional effects of climate change on air quality

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 339, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 721-733

  Giorgi, Filippo ^a   Meleux, Frédérick ^b  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

Author keywords

Air quality; Climate change; Modelling; Ozone; Regional effects; Scenario simulation

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; OZONE; POLLUTION POLICY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SIMULATION;

EID: 36049015017     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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