Ozone air quality simulations with WRF-Chem (v3.5.1) over Europe: Model evaluation and chemical mechanism comparison

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3699-3728

  Mar, Kathleen A ^a   Ojha, Narendra ^b   Pozzer, Andrea ^b   Butler, Tim M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MODEL VALIDATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOLYSIS; REACTION RATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WIND VELOCITY;

EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 84992409583     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-3699-2016     Document Type: Article

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