A replacement for simple back trajectory calculations in the interpretation of atmospheric trace substance measurements

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 36, Issue 29, 2002, Pages 4635-4648

  Stohl, Andreas ^a   Eckhardt, Sabine ^a   Forster, Caroline ^a   James, Paul ^a   Spichtinger, Nicole ^a   Seibert, Petra ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Lagrangian particle dispersion model; Pollution transport; Retroplumes, Source receptor relationships

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TURBULENCE;

FILAMENTARY STRUCTURES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRAJECTORY; TURBULENCE;

AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND;

EID: 0036823594     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00416-8     Document Type: Article

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