Air pollution modeling over very complex terrain: An evaluation of WRF-Chem over Switzerland for two 1-year periods

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 132-133, Issue , 2013, Pages 209-222

  Ritter, Mathias ^a,b   Müller, Mathias D ^a   Tsai, Ming Yi ^a,b,c   Parlow, Eberhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution modeling; Air quality; PolluMap; Switzerland; WRF Chem

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION MODELING; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; POLLUMAP; POSTPROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SWITZERLAND; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF-CHEM;

AIR QUALITY; CORRELATION METHODS; ERRORS; LANDFORMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CORRELATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84879588532     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2013.05.021     Document Type: Article

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