Evaluating the ability of a numerical weather prediction model to forecast tracer concentrations during ETEX 2

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 294-303

  Dacre, H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mass conservation; Pollution transport; UK Met Office Unified Model

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY FORECASTS; COLD FRONT; CONVECTIVE MIXING; CONVEYOR BELTS; CUBIC POLYNOMIALS; EUROPEAN TRACER EXPERIMENTS; FLUX CORRECTED TRANSPORTS; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; LOW RESOLUTION; MASS CONSERVATION; MODEL DYNAMICS; MODEL PHYSICS; MODEL RESOLUTION; NEGATIVE VALUES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETERISATION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; TRACER CONCENTRATION; TRACER SIMULATIONS; TRANSPORT DIRECTION; UNIFIED MODEL; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS; WIND DIRECTIONS;

ADVECTION; AIR QUALITY; BELT CONVEYORS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TRACER; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION;

ACCURACY; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORECASTING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; WEATHER; WIND;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 74149084197     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.10.039     Document Type: Article

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