On the influence of chemical initial and boundary conditions on annual regional air quality model simulations for North America

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 4873-4885

  Samaali, Mehrez ^a   Moran, Michael D ^a   Bouchet, Véronique S ^a   Pavlovic, Radenko ^a   Cousineau, Sophie ^a   Sassi, Mourad ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary condition; Initial condition; Ozone; Particulate matter; Spin up

Indexed keywords

INITIAL CONDITION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LOCAL EMISSIONS; LONG TERM SIMULATION; MODEL DOMAINS; MODEL PREDICTION; NORTH AMERICAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGIONAL AIR QUALITY; SPIN-UP; SURFACE OZONE CONCENTRATIONS; TIME INVARIANTS;

AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; OZONE; PERMANENT MAGNETS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

SIMULATORS;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; NORTH AMERICA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; TIME;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 69649103720     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.07.019     Document Type: Article

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