Multiscale comparison of air quality modeling for an ozone occurrence during the 1996 Paso Del Norte Ozone Campaign

WIT Transactions on Biomedicine and Health

Volumn 15, Issue , 2011, Pages 47-58

  Lu, D ^a   Reddy, R S ^a   Fitzgerald, R ^b   Stockwell, W R ^c   Williams, Q L ^a   Tchounwou, P B ^a  

^a JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality modeling; CMAQ; High ozone event; Multiscale comparison; Smoke; WRF

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODELING; CMAQ; HIGH OZONE EVENT; MULTISCALES; WRF;

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SMOKE;

OZONE;

EID: 84865139186     PISSN: 17433525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2495/EHR110051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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