Articles | Volume 20, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-4399-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-4399-2020
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16 Apr 2020
Research article |  | 16 Apr 2020

Ozone pollution over China and India: seasonality and sources

Meng Gao, Jinhui Gao, Bin Zhu, Rajesh Kumar, Xiao Lu, Shaojie Song, Yuzhong Zhang, Beixi Jia, Peng Wang, Gufran Beig, Jianlin Hu, Qi Ying, Hongliang Zhang, Peter Sherman, and Michael B. McElroy

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A regional fully coupled meteorology–chemistry model, Weather Research and Forecasting model with Chemistry (WRF-Chem), was employed to study the seasonality of ozone (O3) pollution and its sources in both China and India.
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