A regional air quality model over the Kanto region of Japan: The effect of the physics parameterization on the meteorological and chemical fields

NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 109-117

  Niwano, Masanori ^a   Takigawa, Masayuki ^b   Akimoto, Hajime ^a   Takahashi, Masaaki ^a   Teshiba, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a Frontier Research Center for Global Change ^*

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Land sea breeze; Planetary boundary layer

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956820429     PISSN: 18746519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8453-9_12     Document Type: Chapter

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