Diagnosis of an underestimation of summertime sulfate using the Community Multiscale Air Quality model

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 5119-5130

  Luo, Chao ^a   Wang, Yuhang ^a   Mueller, Stephen ^b   Knipping, Eladio ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY   (United States)

^c ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud processing; Community Multiscale Air Quality; Model; Model evaluation; Sulfate

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MONITORING; AVERAGE LIFETIME; CLOUD LIQUID WATER PATH; CLOUD PROCESSING; COMMUNITY MULTI-SCALE AIR QUALITIES; COMMUNITY MULTI-SCALE AIR QUALITY MODELS; DETAILED MODELING; LOW BIAS; METEOROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; MODEL EVALUATION; MODEL SIMULATION; POTENTIAL MODEL; PRECIPITATING CLOUDS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SUB-GRIDS; SULFATE; SURFACE OBSERVATION; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; WET SCAVENGING;

AIR QUALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SULFATE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLOUD WATER; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; ERROR ANALYSIS; MODEL TEST; PRECIPITABLE WATER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SULFATE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SUMMER; TEMPORAL CYCLE; WET DEPOSITION;

ACID RAIN; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ARTICLE; CLOUD; OBSERVATION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATELLITE CELL; SIMULATION; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; WET DEPOSITION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960837299     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.06.029     Document Type: Article

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