Impacts of future climate and emission changes on U.S. air quality

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 533-547

  Penrod, Ashley ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Wu, Shiang Yuh ^b   Leung, L Ruby ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; CMAQ; Emissions; Future climate change; Model evaluation; WRF

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMISSION CONTROL; FORECASTING; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTANTS; CMAQ; DRY AND WET DEPOSITIONS; FUTURE CLIMATE; MODEL EVALUATION; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; WRF;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FUTURE PROSPECT; ISOPRENE; METEOROLOGY; OZONE; TERPENE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WET DEPOSITION;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WET DEPOSITION; WINTER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84895991872     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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