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Seasonal modeling of regional ozone pollution in the eastern United States
Author(s) -
Kasibhatla P.,
Chameides W. L.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/1999gl011147
Subject(s) - environmental science , climatology , ozone , pollution , seasonality , distribution (mathematics) , meteorology , geography , geology , statistics , mathematics , ecology , biology , mathematical analysis
In this study, we report on the results from a comprehensive model simulation of regional ozone (O 3 ) throughout a season in the eastern United States. The model is shown to perform better in terms of simulating seasonal, rather than episodic, characteristics of the regional surface O 3 distribution. This finding suggests that it may be more appropriate to use models of this type to assess seasonal O 3 patterns rather than following the current paradigm of developing regional control strategies based on event‐specific simulations.