Impact of nesting resolution jump on dynamical downscaling ozone concentrations over Belgium

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 46-52

  Lauwaet, D ^a   Viaene, P ^a   Brisson, E ^b   van Noije, T ^c   Strunk, A ^c   Van Looy, S ^a   Maiheu, B ^a   Veldeman, N ^a   Blyth, L ^a   De Ridder, K ^a   Janssen, S ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AURORA; COSMO CLM; Downscaling; Nesting; Ozone; Resolution

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MODELLING; AURORA; AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; BELGIUM; COSMO-CLM; DATA SETS; DOWN-SCALING; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LARGE PARTS; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; MODEL DOMAINS; MODEL EVALUATION; NESTING; OPTIMAL RESOLUTION; OZONE CONCENTRATION; REGIONAL AIR QUALITY; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SURFACE OZONE CONCENTRATIONS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PATTERN; TEMPORAL VARIANCE; URBAN REGIONS;

AIR QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

OZONE;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLIMATE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BELGIUM;

EID: 84869875641     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.10.034     Document Type: Article

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