Transport model calculations of NW-European methane emissions

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 315-324

  Vermeulen, A T ^a   Eisma, R ^a,b   Hensen, A ^a   Slanina, J ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emission inventory; Greenhouse gas; Inventory quality; Inverse modeling; Lagrangian; Methane; Mixing layer; Monitoring; Singular value decomposition; Trajectory model; Transport model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006636541     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1462-9011(99)00021-0     Document Type: Article

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