Impacts of using an ensemble Kalman filter on air quality simulations along the California-Mexico border region during Cal-Mex 2010 Field Campaign

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 499, Issue , 2014, Pages 141-153

  Bei, Naifang ^a,b   Li, Guohui ^b,c   Meng, Zhiyong ^d   Weng, Yonghui ^e   Zavala, Miguel ^b   Molina, L T ^b,f  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MOLINA CENTER FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (United States)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality simulations; Data assimilation; EnKF; Meteorological

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY SIMULATION; BORDER REGIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENKF; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FIELD CAMPAIGN; METEOROLOGICAL;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; OZONE; SULFATE; AEROSOL;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; AMMONIUM; BORDER REGION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; METEOROLOGY; NITRATE; OZONE; SULFATE;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FORECASTING; HUMIDITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGY; MEXICO; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; DEVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FILTRATION; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FILTRATION; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; MEXICO; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OZONE;

EID: 84906748474     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.07.121     Document Type: Article

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