Application of WRF/Chem-MADRID and WRF/Polyphemus in Europe - Part 2: Evaluation of chemical concentrations and sensitivity simulations

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 6845-6875

  Zhang, Y ^a   Sartelet, K ^b   Zhu, S ^a   Wang, W ^a,d   Wu, S Y ^c   Zhang, X ^a   Wang, K ^a   Tran, P ^b   Seigneur, C ^b   Wang, Z F ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDF R AND D   (France)

^c Department of Air Quality and Environmental Management ^*  (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EUROPE;

EID: 84880627134     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-6845-2013     Document Type: Article

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