Integrated modeling for forecasting weather and air quality: A call for fully coupled approaches

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 6845-6851

  Grell, Georg ^a   Baklanov, Alexander ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Air quality forecasting; Atmospheric chemical transport modeling; Atmospheric chemistry; Chemical data assimilation; Chemical weather prediction; Climate; Clouds; Feedback mechanisms; Meteorology; Numerical weather prediction; Online integrated air quality meteorology modeling systems; Radiation; Two way interactions

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY FORECASTING; CHEMICAL DATA ASSIMILATION; CLIMATE; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; ONLINE INTEGRATED AIR QUALITY - METEOROLOGY MODELING SYSTEMS; TWO-WAY INTERACTION;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; METEOROLOGY; MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; INTEGRATED APPROACH; RADIATION BUDGET; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORECASTING; INFORMATION SERVICE; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79958153895     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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