Analysis of regional meteorology and surface ozone during the TexAQS II field program and an evaluation of the NMM-CMAQ and WRF-Chem air quality models

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Wilczak, James M ^a   Djalalova, Irina ^a,b   McKeen, Stuart ^a,b   Bianco, Laura ^a,b   Bao, Jian Wen ^a   Grell, Georg ^a,b   Peckham, Steven ^a,b   Mathur, Rohit ^c   McQueen, Jeff ^d   Lee, Pius ^d  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; METEOROLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR QUALITY MODELS; COMMUNITY MULTI-SCALE AIR QUALITY MODELS; EAST TEXAS; GULF OF MEXICO; HOUSTON; INFLOW BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; NEGATIVE BIAS; NONHYDROSTATIC MESOSCALE MODELS; OZONE CONCENTRATION; POSITIVE BIAS; SEPARATE ANALYSIS; SUPPORTING SURFACES; SURFACE OZONE; TEXAS AIR QUALITY EXPERIMENTS; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST MODELS; WIND PROFILER;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); METEOROLOGY; OZONE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RESEARCH WORK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DALLAS; GULF OF MEXICO; HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73749083549     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011675     Document Type: Article

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