New Directions: Understanding interactions of air quality and climate change at regional scales

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 419-421

  Alapaty, Kiran ^a   Mathur, Rohit ^a   Pleim, Jonathan ^a   Hogrefe, Christian ^a   Rao, S Trivikrama ^a   Ramaswamy, Venkatachalam ^b   Galmarini, Stefano ^c   Schaap, Martijn ^d   Makar, Paul ^e   Vautard, Robert ^f   Baklanov, Alexander ^g   Kallos, George ^h   Vogel, Bernhard ⁱ   Sokhi, Ranjeet ^j  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^f Laboratoire des Sciences du Climate et de l'Environnement   (France)

^g DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

ⁱ KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Air quality climate change interactions; AQMEII; Emissions uncertainty; Global climate modeling; Global to regional models; Lateral boundary conditions; Metrics for model intercomparison; Model evaluation; Regional air quality modeling

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY CLIMATE INTERACTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; LETTER; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84856514887     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.016     Document Type: Letter

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