Using national air quality forecast guidance to develop local air quality index forecasts

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-326

  Eder, Brian ^a   Kang, Daiwen ^b   Rao, Trivikrama ^a   Mathur, Rohit ^a   Yu, Shaocai ^b   Otte, Tanya ^a   Schere, Ken ^a   Wayland, Richard ^a   Jackson, Scott ^a   Davidson, Paula ^c   McQueen, Jeff ^c   Bridgers, George ^d  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Division of Air Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR QUALITY FORECASTS; CLEAN AIR ACT; CODE INDEX; COMMUNITY MULTI-SCALE AIR QUALITIES; HEALTH EFFECTS; HEAT INDICES; KEY COMPONENT; MESOSCALE; NORTH AMERICAN; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION;

AIR QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77951611366     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2734.1     Document Type: Article

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