Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1241-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1241-2019
Model evaluation paper
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02 Apr 2019
Model evaluation paper |  | 02 Apr 2019

Ensemble forecasts of air quality in eastern China – Part 2: Evaluation of the MarcoPolo–Panda prediction system, version 1

Anna Katinka Petersen, Guy P. Brasseur, Idir Bouarar, Johannes Flemming, Michael Gauss, Fei Jiang, Rostislav Kouznetsov, Richard Kranenburg, Bas Mijling, Vincent-Henri Peuch, Matthieu Pommier, Arjo Segers, Mikhail Sofiev, Renske Timmermans, Ronald van der A, Stacy Walters, Ying Xie, Jianming Xu, and Guangqiang Zhou

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