A description and evaluation of an air quality model nested within global and regional composition-climate models using MetUM

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 3941-3962

  Neal, Lucy S ^a   Dalvi, Mohit ^a   Folberth, Gerd ^a   McInnes, Rachel N ^a,b   Agnew, Paul ^a   O'Connor, Fiona M ^a   Savage, Nicholas H ^a   Tilbee, Marie ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85032709587     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-3941-2017     Document Type: Article

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