An ensemble assessment of regional ozone model uncertainty with an explicit error representation

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 784-793

  Boynard, A ^a,b   Beekmann, M ^a   Foret, G ^a   Ung, A ^c   Szopa, S ^d   Schmechtig, C ^a   Coman, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

^d DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensemble method; Error covariance; Modelling; Ozone

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODELS; AVERAGE MODEL; CONSTRUCTING MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE METHODS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; ERROR CORRELATION; ERROR COVARIANCE; ERROR REPRESENTATION; GLOBAL UNCERTAINTY; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODELLING; OZONE CONCENTRATION; OZONE MODELS; REGIONAL SCALE; SUMMER SEASON; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; VERTICAL DIMENSIONS;

AIR QUALITY; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; OZONE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 78751584895     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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