Evaluation of near surface ozone in air quality simulations forced by a regional climate model over Europe for the period 1991-2000

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 36, 2011, Pages 6489-6500

  Zanis, P ^a   Katragkou, E ^a   Tegoulias, I ^a   Poupkou, A ^a   Melas, D ^a   Huszar, P ^b   Giorgi, F ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air quality modelling; Europe; Evaluation; Regional climate modelling; Tropospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODELLING; EUROPE; EVALUATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELLING; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; OZONE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; DATABASE; OZONE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DATA BASE; EUROPE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 80053107232     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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