The impact of nudging in the meteorological model for retrospective air quality simulations. Part I: Evaluation against national observation networks

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1853-1867

  Otte, Tanya L ^a  

^a NOAA/US Air Resources Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMIC MODELS; OZONE; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS;

AIR QUALITY MODELS; AIR QUALITY SIMULATIONS; ANALYSIS APPROACHES; MESOSCALE MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS; METEOROLOGICAL FIELDS; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; MULTISCALE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NEWTONIANS; OZONE MIXING; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITIES; SKILL SCORES;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 57649194780     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1790.1     Document Type: Article

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