Sub-grid variability and its impact on European wide air quality exposure assessment

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 4220-4229

  Denby, Bruce ^a   Cassiani, Massimo ^a   de Smet, Peter ^b   de Leeuw, Frank ^b   Horálek, Jan ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c The Czech Hydro Meteorological Institute (CHMI)   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Air quality; Covariance; Exposure; Sub grid variability

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; COVARIANCE; EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; GRID RESOLUTION; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH INDICATORS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MODEL GRID RESOLUTION; MODEL RESULTS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION DENSITIES; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PROXY DATA; SUB-GRID VARIABILITY; SUB-GRIDS; URBAN BACKGROUND;

AIR QUALITY; ESTIMATION; OZONE; RATING;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AIR QUALITY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; OZONE; PARAMETERIZATION; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION DENSITY; URBAN POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; EUROPE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OZONE LAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA;

EUROPE;

EID: 79959510072     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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