Multi-year downscaling application of two-way coupled WRF v3.4 and CMAQ v5.0.2 over east Asia for regional climate and air quality modeling: Model evaluation and aerosol direct effects

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 2447-2470

  Hong, Chaopeng ^a,b   Zhang, Qiang ^a,c   Zhang, Yang ^b,c   Tang, Youhua ^d,e   Tong, Daniel ^d,e,f   He, Kebin ^a,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Improvement with Forestry and Fruit Trees   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CMIP; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOWNSCALING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

CHINA;

EID: 85021662859     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-2447-2017     Document Type: Article

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