The impacts of changing transport and precipitation on pollutant distributions in a future climate

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Fang, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Fiore, Arlene M ^b   Horowitz, Larry W ^a,b   Gnanadesikan, Anand ^a,b   Held, Isaac ^a,b   Chen, Gang ^c   Vecchi, Gabriel ^b   Levy, Hiram ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CARBON MONOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS; OZONE; POLLUTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

AIR POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; ANNUAL MEAN; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATE WARMS; CO EMISSIONS; EMISSION REGULATION; FUTURE CLIMATE; GENERAL CIRCULATION; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; HORIZONTAL TRANSPORT; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT DISTRIBUTION; SEASONALITY; WARMING CLIMATE; WET DEPOSITION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLUID DYNAMICS; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VENTILATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 80053057567     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD015642     Document Type: Article

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