Examination of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model performance over the North American and European domains

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 53, Issue , 2012, Pages 142-155

  Appel, K Wyat ^a   Chemel, Charles ^b   Roselle, Shawn J ^a   Francis, Xavier V ^b   Hu, Rong Ming ^b   Sokhi, Ranjeet S ^b   Rao, S T ^a   Galmarini, Stefano ^c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air quality modeling; AQMEII; CMAQ; Model evaluation; Ozone; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODELING; AQMEII; CMAQ; MODEL EVALUATION; PARTICULATE MATTER;

MIXING; OZONE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR QUALITY;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; MIXING RATIO; MODEL TEST; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; COMMUNITY MULTISCALE AIR QUALITY MODEL; EUROPE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; NORTH AMERICA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPRING; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

EUROPE;

EID: 84860555628     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.11.016     Document Type: Article

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