The impact of climate change on air quality-related meteorological conditions in California. Part I: Present time simulation analysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3344-3361

  Zhao, Zhan ^a,b   Chen, Shu Hua ^a   Kleeman, Michael J ^c   Tyree, Mary ^b   Cayan, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Climate change

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODELS; CALIFORNIA; DOWN-SCALING; DOWNSCALING PROCESS; DOWNSCALING SIMULATIONS; FORECASTING SYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL DATA; GLOBAL DATASETS; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; HIGH RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE FEATURES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; PARALLEL CLIMATE MODEL; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; POLLUTED AREA; POLLUTION PROBLEMS; REANALYSIS; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; SIMULATION RESULT; SOUTH COAST AIR BASINS; STAGNATION EVENTS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE WINDS; TIME SIMULATIONS; VALLEY WINDS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST MODELS; WIND SPEED;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; METEOROLOGY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL VALLEY [CALIFORNIA]; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960306355     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3849.1     Document Type: Article

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