Prediction of visibility and aerosol within the operational Met Office Unified Model.II: Validation of model performance using observational data

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 636, 2008, Pages 1817-1832

  Haywood, Jim ^a   Bush, Mike ^a   Abel, Steven ^a   Claxton, Bernie ^a   Coe, Hugh ^b   Crosier, Jonathan ^b   Harrison, Mark ^a   Macpherson, Bruce ^a   Naylor, Mark ^a   Osborne, Simon ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Pollution; Visibility

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COAGULATION; FORECASTING; LIGHT EXTINCTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VISIBILITY;

ACCUMULATION MODES; AEROSOL CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; AEROSOL EXTINCTIONS; AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETERS; AEROSOL MASSES; AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; AMMONIUM SULPHATE; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; COMPLEX MIXTURES; LOW VISIBILITIES; MODEL PERFORMANCES; OBSERVATIONAL DATUMS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SULPHATE; SYSTEMATIC BIASES; UNIFIED MODELS;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; VISIBILITY;

EID: 57349171542     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.275     Document Type: Article

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