Coupling GEOS-CHEM with a regional air pollution model for Greece

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 31, 2009, Pages 4793-4804

  Tombrou, M ^a   Bossioli, E ^a   Protonotariou, A P ^a   Flocas, H ^a   Giannakopoulos, C ^b   Dandou, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; CO; Global GEOS CHEM model; Global to mesoscale model chain; NOy; O3; Synoptic categories

Indexed keywords

CO; GLOBAL GEOS-CHEM MODEL; GLOBAL TO MESOSCALE MODEL-CHAIN; NOY; O3; SYNOPTIC CATEGORIES;

AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; OZONE; SHIPS;

SIMULATORS;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OZONE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GREECE; PLUME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; URBAN AREA;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINOKALIA; GREECE; LASITHI; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 69549130735     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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