Evaluation of modeled surface ozone biases as a function of cloud cover fraction

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2959-2965

  Kim, H C ^a,b   Lee, P ^a   Ngan, F ^a,b   Tang, Y ^a,b   Yoo, H L ^a,b   Pan, L ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; FORECASTING METHOD; MODIS; OZONE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942594843     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-2959-2015     Document Type: Article

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