Evaluating the Effects of Radiative Forcing Feedback in Modelling Urban Ozone Air Quality in Portland, Oregon: Two-Way Coupled MM5-CMAQ Numerical Model Simulations

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 291-305

  Taha, Haider ^a   Sailor, David ^b  

^a Altostratus Inc   (United States)

^b Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Meteorological numerical modelling; On line coupling; Photochemical modelling; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; GROUND-LEVEL OZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; ON-LINE COUPLING; PEAK OZONE CONCENTRATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL MODELLING; PORTLAND , OREGON; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; STAND -ALONE; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; URBAN OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; METEOROLOGY; OZONE; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

OREGON; PORTLAND [OREGON]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957964944     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-010-9533-9     Document Type: Article

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