Air quality forecasts on a kilometer-scale grid over complex Spanish terrains

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1979-1999

  Pay, M T ^a,c   Martinez F ^a   Guevara, M ^a   Baldasano, J M ^a,b  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY LAYER; FORECASTING METHOD; PARTICULATE MATTER; SIMULATION; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

ANDALUCIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84907012276     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-1979-2014     Document Type: Article

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