The impact of nudging in the meteorological model for retrospective air quality simulations. Part II: Evaluating collocated meteorological and air quality observations

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1868-1887

  Otte, Tanya L ^a  

^a NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Research Triangle Park   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; GASES; OZONE; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS;

AIR QUALITY SIMULATIONS; ANALYSIS APPROACHES; DATA ASSIMILATIONS; ERROR PATTERNS; MESOSCALE MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL FIELDS; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; MULTISCALE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NEWTONIANS; OZONE PREDICTIONS; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITIES; SHORTWAVE RADIATIONS; SMALL NETWORKS; SPECIFIC SITES; WIND SPEEDS;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SIMULATION; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 57649142980     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1791.1     Document Type: Article

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