The impact of chemical lateral boundary conditions on CMAQ predictions of tropospheric ozone over the continental United States

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-58

  Tang, Youhua ^a,b   Lee, Pius ^a   Tsidulko, Marina ^a   Huang, Ho Chun ^a   McQueen, Jeffery T ^b   DiMego, Geoffrey J ^b   Emmons, Louisa K ^c   Pierce, Robert B ^d   Thompson, Anne M ^e   Lin, Hsin Mu ^f   Kang, Daiwen ^f   Tong, Daniel ^f   Yu, Shaocai ^f   Mathur, Rohit ^g   Pleim, Jonathan E ^g   Otte, Tanya L ^g   Pouliot, George ^g   Young, Jeffrey O ^g   Schere, Kenneth L ^g   Davidson, Paula M ^h   Stajner, Ivanka ⁱ   more..

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^g U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^h NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ NOBLIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality model; AIRNOW; Boundary condition; Chemical transport model; CMAQ; Ozone prediction; Ozonesonde

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODEL; AIRNOW; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODEL; CMAQ; OZONE PREDICTION; OZONESONDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FORECASTING METHOD; OZONE; OZONESONDE; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 62549122971     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-008-9092-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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