Transferring the heterogeneity of surface emissions to variability in pollutant concentrations over urban areas through a chemistry-transport model

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 3229-3238

  Valari, Myrto ^a,b   Menut, Laurent ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Chemistry transport models; Heterogeneous emissions; Subgrid scale variability

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODELS; AVERAGED MODELS; CHEMISTRY TRANSPORT MODEL; EMISSION FLUXES; GRID-BASED; HEALTH IMPACT; HETEROGENEOUS EMISSIONS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HUMAN EXPOSURES; MODEL RESOLUTION; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; POLLUTANT VARIABILITY; RESIDENTIAL BLOCK; SMALL SCALE; SPECIFIC COMPONENT; SUB-GRIDS; SUBGRID SCALE; SURFACE EMISSIONS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

MODELS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LAND USE; MODEL VALIDATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOLUTION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; INFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA;

EID: 77954657502     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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