Evaluation of Air Quality Model Performance for Simulating Long-Range Transport and Local Pollution of PM2.5 in Japan

The Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) v5.0.2 was applied to PM2.5 simulation in Japan, which is strongly affected by long-range transport (LRT) from anthropogenic sources in the Asian Continent, for one year from April 2010 to March 2011. The model performance for LRT and local pollution...

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Main Authors: Hikari Shimadera, Tatsuya Kojima, Akira Kondo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5694251