Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1511-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1511-2017
Research article
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31 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 31 Jan 2017

The impact of resolution on meteorological, chemical and aerosol properties in regional simulations with WRF-Chem

Paola Crippa, Ryan C. Sullivan, Abhinav Thota, and Sara C. Pryor

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