Impact Evaluation of Aerosol Variational Assimilation Based on Improved GSI System on WRF-Chem PM2.5 Analysis and Forecast

Jie CHEN; Zhengqiang LI; Wenyuan CHANG; Ying ZHANG; Yuanyuan WEI; Yisong XIE; Bangyu GE; Chi ZHANG

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1673-6141.2020.05.001

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