Atmospheric dynamics and elevated ozone concentrations in the northern Adriatic

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 482-496

  Prtenjak, Maja Telišman ^a   Jeričević, Amela ^b   Klaić, Zvjezdana Bencetić ^a   Alebić Juretić, Ana ^c   Bulić, Ivana Herceg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^c Teaching Institute for Public Health   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Air quality; EMEP model; Pollution episode; Sea land breeze circulation; WRF model

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA; POLLUTION EPISODES; SEA-LAND BREEZE; SOUTH-WESTERLY WINDS; THERMAL CIRCULATION; WRF MODEL;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LAND-SEA INTERACTION; METEOROLOGY; OZONE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84889084025     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.1312     Document Type: Article

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