Estimation of cross-tropopause airmass fluxes at midlatitudes: Comparison of different numerical methods and meteorological situations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 4045-4057

  Kowol Santen, Johanna ^a,b   Elbern, H ^a   Ebel, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; MASS TRANSFER; TRAJECTORY; TROPOPAUSE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE;

EID: 0034466073     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)129<4045:EOCTAF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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