A combined model-observation approach to estimate historic gridded fields of PM2.5 mass and species concentrations

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2561-2570

  Hogrefe, Christian ^a,d   Lynn, Barry ^b   Goldberg, Richard ^c   Rosenzweig, Cynthia ^c   Zalewsky, Eric ^d   Hao, Winston ^d   Doraiswamy, Prakash ^a   Civerolo, Kevin ^d   Ku, Jia Yeong ^d   Sistla, Gopal ^d   Kinney, P L ^e  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Weather It Is LTD   (Israel)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol model evaluation; Air Quality (CMAQ) model; Air quality characterization; Community Multiscale; Data integration; Long term air quality modeling

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL MODEL EVALUATION; AIR QUALITY SIMULATIONS; ALTERNATE METHODS; CO-LOCATED; COMBINED MODELS; COMMUNITY MULTI-SCALE AIR QUALITY MODELS; COMMUNITY MULTISCALE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; DATA INTEGRATION; FINE PARTICULATE MATTERS; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENTS; LONG-TERM AIR QUALITY MODELING; MESOSCALE MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL MODELS; MODEL EVALUATIONS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; OBSERVATIONAL DATUM; ORIGINAL MODELS; PHOTOCHEMICAL AIR QUALITY MODELS; REGIONAL SCALE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPATIAL COVERAGES; SPECIES CONCENTRATIONS; TIME PERIODS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; INTEGRATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AMMONIA; CARBON; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL TEST; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); METHODOLOGY; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 64649096100     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.02.031     Document Type: Article

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