Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-4393-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-4393-2019
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04 Apr 2019
Research article |  | 04 Apr 2019

An evaluation of the efficacy of very high resolution air-quality modelling over the Athabasca oil sands region, Alberta, Canada

Matthew Russell, Amir Hakami, Paul A. Makar, Ayodeji Akingunola, Junhua Zhang, Michael D. Moran, and Qiong Zheng

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