Evaluation of regional climate simulations for air quality modelling purposes

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2515-2533

  Menut, Laurent ^a   Tripathi, Om P ^a,b   Colette, Augustin ^c   Vautard, Robert ^d   Flaounas, Emmanouil ^a   Bessagnet, Bertrand ^c  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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

^d INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

Air quality; Climate change; Regional modelling

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLOBAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SUMMER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876844021     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1345-9     Document Type: Article

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