On the impact of the vertical resolution on chemistry-transport modelling

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 370-384

  Menut, Laurent ^a   Bessagnet, Bertrand ^b   Colette, Augustin ^b   Khvorostiyanov, Dmitry ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pollution; Chemistry transport modelling; Sensitivity to vertical resolution

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS; AIR QUALITY FORECASTING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MIXED-BOUNDARY; MODEL CONFIGURATION; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; SURFACE CONCENTRATION; SURFACE LAYERS; THREE MODELS; VERTICAL AXIS; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FORECASTING METHOD; POLLUTANT; RESOLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FRANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84870926402     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.11.026     Document Type: Article

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