Evaluation of European air quality modelled by CAMx including the volatility basis set scheme

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 10313-10332

  Ciarelli, Giancarlo ^a   Aksoyoglu, Sebnem ^a   Crippa, Monica ^a,j   Jimenez, Jose Luis ^b   Nemitz, Eriko ^c   Sellegri, Karine ^d   Äijälä, Mikko ^e   Carbone, Samara ^f,k   Mohr, Claudia ^g   O'dowd, Colin ^h   Poulain, Laurent ⁱ   Baltensperger, Urs ^a   Prévôt, André S H ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

ⁱ LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^j JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ERROR ANALYSIS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84983329076     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-10313-2016     Document Type: Article

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