Development and initial application of the global-through-urban weather research and forecasting model with chemistry (GU-WRF/Chem)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Yang ^a,b   Karamchandani, Prakash ^c,d   Glotfelty, Timothy ^a   Streets, David G ^e   Grell, Georg ^f   Nenes, Athanasios ^g,h   Yu, Fangqun ⁱ   Bennartz, Ralf ^j  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ENVIRON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

ⁱ STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHOTOLYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; CHEMICAL SPECIES; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; CLOUD PROPERTIES; COARSER GRID; GLOBAL CHANGE; HIGHER RESOLUTION; LOCAL SCALE; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MESOSCALE MODEL; MICROPHYSICAL PROCESS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MODEL PREDICTION; MODEL SYSTEM; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NET EFFECT; PHOTOLYSIS RATES; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; UNIFIED MODEL; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GLOBAL CHANGE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHOTOLYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84868651483     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017966     Document Type: Article

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