Meteorological and air quality forecasting using the WRF-STEM model during the 2008 ARCTAS field campaign

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 6901-6910

  D'Allura, Alessio ^a   Kulkarni, Sarika ^b   Carmichael, Gregory R ^b   Finardi, Sandro ^a   Adhikary, Bhupesh ^b   Wei, Chao ^b   Streets, David ^c   Zhang, Qiang ^c   Pierce, Robert B ^d   Al Saadi, Jassim A ^e   Diskin, Glenn ^e   Wennberg, Paul ^f  

^a ARIANET Srl   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality forecasting; ARCTAS; Arctic; Chemical weather

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY FORECASTING; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ARCTAS; ARCTIC; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS; BIOMASS-BURNING; CLOUD COVERAGE; CROSS SECTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIELD CAMPAIGN; FLIGHT PLANNING; FLIGHT TRACK; FORECASTING SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; NORTH POLE; POST ANALYSIS; SOURCE REGION; UNIVERSITY OF IOWA; WEATHER PREDICTION; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEED; WRF MODEL;

AIR QUALITY; BIOMASS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CARBON MONOXIDE;

AIR MASS; AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOMASS BURNING; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD COVER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; TRACER; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR QUALITY; ALTITUDE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIOMASS; CHINA; CLOUD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXHAUST GAS; FLIGHT; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MODEL; PLANNING; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; VELOCITY; WIND;

ARCTIC; NORTH POLE;

EID: 80755175804     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.02.073     Document Type: Article

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