Presentation of the EURODELTA III intercomparison exercise-evaluation of the chemistry transport models' performance on criteria pollutants and joint analysis with meteorology

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 12667-12701

  Bessagnet, Bertrand ^a   Pirovano, Guido ^b   Mircea, Mihaela ^c   Cuvelier, Cornelius ^d   Aulinger, Armin ^e   Calori, Giuseppe ^f   Ciarelli, Giancarlo ^g   Manders, Astrid ^h   Stern, Rainer ⁱ   Tsyro, Svetlana ^j   Garciá Vivanco, Marta ^k   Thunis, Philippe ^d   Pay, Maria Teresa ^l   Colette, Augustin ^a   Couvidat, Florian ^a   Meleux, Frédérik ^a   Rouïl, Laurence ^a   Ung, Anthony ^a   Aksoyoglu, Sebnem ^g   Baldasano, José Mariá ^l   Bieser, Johannes ^e   Briganti, Gino ^c   Cappelletti, Andrea ^c   D'Isidoro, Massimo ^c   Finardi, Sandro ^f   Kranenburg, Richard ^h   Silibello, Camillo ^f   Carnevale, Claudio ^m   Aas, Wenche ⁿ   Dupont, Jean Charles ^o   Fagerli, Hilde ^j   Gonzalez, Lucia ^p   Menut, Laurent ^o   Prévôt, André S H ^g   Roberts, Pete ^p   White, Les ^q   more..

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

^b RICERCA SUL SISTEMA ENERGETICO RSE S P A   (Italy)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f ARIANET Srl   (Italy)

^g PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^h TNO   (Netherlands)

ⁱ FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^j NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^k CIEMAT   (Spain)

^l BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

ⁿ NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^o ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^p CONCAWE ^*  (Belgium)

^q AERIS Europe Limited   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84977620327     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-12667-2016     Document Type: Article

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