Megacities, air quality and climate

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 126, Issue , 2016, Pages 235-249

  Baklanov, Alexander ^a   Molina, Luisa T ^b   Gauss, Michael ^c  

^a WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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

^c NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Air quality; Climate; Megacities; Mitigation; Monitoring; Seamless modeling

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FLOODS; MONITORING; POLLUTION; URBAN GROWTH;

AIR POLLUTION EPISODES; BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH; CLIMATE; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MEGACITIES; MITIGATION; RAPID URBANIZATIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE;

AIR POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; EMISSION INVENTORY; POLLUTION MONITORING; RESEARCH WORK; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; APPLIED RESEARCH; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WEATHER;

EID: 84949670682     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.11.059     Document Type: Review

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