A backward-time stochastic Lagrangian air quality model

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 54, Issue , 2012, Pages 373-386

  Wen, Deyong ^a   Lin, John C ^a   Millet, Dylan B ^b   Stein, Ariel F ^c   Draxler, Roland R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Cross border pollutant transport; Lagrangian model; Tropospheric ozone

Indexed keywords

AIR PARCELS; AIR QUALITY MODELS; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; CROSS-BORDER; EMISSION SCENARIO; EMISSION SOURCES; EULERIAN; FICTITIOUS PARTICLE; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN MODELS; LAGRANGIAN TRANSPORT MODEL; MODEL RESULTS; MODEL-PREDICTED CONCENTRATIONS; NATURAL EMISSIONS; ONTARIO; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SMALL TOWNS; STOCHASTIC MOTION; TARGET SITES; TEST SITE; TIME-REVERSED; TRANSPORT PHENOMENA; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; URBAN REGIONS;

AIR QUALITY; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OZONE; RURAL AREAS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRAJECTORIES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OZONE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RURAL AREA; STOICHIOMETRY; TROPOSPHERE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; LAGRANGIAN AIR QUALITY MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; STOCHASTIC MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84860636951     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.02.042     Document Type: Article

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