Application of the weather research and forecasting model for air quality modeling in the San Francisco bay area

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1953-1973

  Rogers, Raphael E ^a   Deng, Aijun ^a   Stauffer, David R ^a   Gaudet, Brian J ^a   Jia, Yiqin ^b   Soong, Su Tzai ^b   Tanrikulu, Saffet ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bay Area Air Quality Management   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS; AIR QUALITY MODELING; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; MODEL CONFIGURATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR STATISTICS; LANDFORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR QUALITY; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE EDDY; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RESEARCH; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO VALLEY; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884223193     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0280.1     Document Type: Article

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