Performance evaluation of chemistry transport models over India

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 210-225

  Moorthy, K Krishna ^a   Beegum, S Naseema ^a,b   Srivastava, N ^c   Satheesh, S K ^c   Chin, Mian ^d   Blond, Nadege ^e   Babu, S Suresh ^a   Singh, S ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Black carbon; Chemistry transport models

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL RADIATION; AIR MASS; BLACK CARBON; BLACK CARBON AEROSOL; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; CHEMISTRY TRANSPORT MODEL; COMBINED EFFECT; INDO-GANGETIC PLAINS; INTRA-SEASONAL; MASS CONCENTRATION; MEGACITIES; MODEL SIMULATION; NATURAL VARIABILITY; OZONE CHEMISTRY; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PRE-MONSOON; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BLACK CARBON;

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OZONE; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOLOGICAL TIME; INDIA; METEOROLOGY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

GANGETIC PLAIN;

EID: 84874718294     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.01.056     Document Type: Article

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