Evaluation of dust and trace metal estimates from the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 5.0

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 883-899

  Appel, K W ^a   Pouliot, G A ^a   Simon, H ^a   Sarwar, G ^a   Pye, H O T ^a   Napelenok, S L ^a   Akhtar, F ^a   Roselle, S J ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ALUMINUM; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON EMISSION; DUST; EMISSION INVENTORY; IRON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SILICA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFORMATION; URBAN AREA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880534477     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-6-883-2013     Document Type: Article

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