Classification of weather patterns and associated trajectories of high-ozone episodes in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area during the 2005/06 TexAQS-II

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 485-499

  Ngan, Fong ^a   Byun, Daewon ^a  

^a NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Ozone; Pattern detection; Sea breezes; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; EMISSION SOURCES; HOUSTON; METROPOLITAN AREA; OZONE EPISODES; OZONE LEVELS; OZONE STANDARDS; PATTERN DETECTION; PICKING UP; SEA BREEZE; SHIP CHANNELS; SHORT DISTANCES; SURFACE WINDS; SYNOPTIC WEATHER PATTERNS; TWO-STAGE CLUSTERING; WEATHER PATTERNS; WIND SPEED;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COASTAL ZONES; TRAJECTORIES;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FLOW PATTERN; METROPOLITAN AREA; OZONE; SEA BREEZE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

BRAZORIA COUNTY; GALVESTON; HOUSTON; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954998830     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2483.1     Document Type: Article

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