Sensitivity of age-of-air calculations to the choice of advection scheme

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 3185-3201

  Eluszkiewicz, J ^a   Hemler, R S ^a   Mahlman, J D ^a   Bruhwiler, L ^a   Takacs, L L ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

ADVECTION SCHEME; AGE OF AIR; CENTERED DIFFERENCE SCHEME; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEMI LAGRANGIAN TRANSPORT;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ADVECTION; AGE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; TRACER;

EID: 0034300479     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<3185:SOAOAC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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