Improving the calculation of particle trajectories in the extra-tropical troposphere using standard NCEP fields

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 483-490

  Paldor, Nathan ^a   Dvorkin, Yona ^a   Basdevant, C ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Constant Level Balloons; Lagrangian dispersion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; VELOCITY;

PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

GEOPOTENTIAL; TRAJECTORY; TROPOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; BALLOON; CALCULATION; EXPERIMENT; MODEL; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0036134853     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(01)00305-3     Document Type: Article

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