A novel approach for determining source-receptor relationships in model simulations: A case study of black carbon transport in northern hemisphere winter

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Ma, Po Lun ^a   Gattiker, James R ^b   Liu, Xiaohong ^a   Rasch, Philip J ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

black carbon; CAM5; emulation; Gaussian process; source receptor

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

BLACK CARBON; CAM5; EMULATION; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; SOURCE-RECEPTOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EMISSION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; METEOROLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; WINTER;

EID: 84880857610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024042     Document Type: Article

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