Downscaling a global climate model to simulate climate change over the US and the implication on regional and urban air quality

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1429-1445

  Trail, M ^a   Tsimpidi, A P ^a   Liu, P ^a   Tsigaridis, K ^b,c   Hu, Y ^a   Nenes, A ^a,d   Russell, A G ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEALTH RISK; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884157974     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-6-1429-2013     Document Type: Article

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