Estimating the average time for inter-continental transport of air pollutants

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Liu, Junfeng ^a   Mauzerall, Denise L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; INTERCONTINENTAL TRANSPORT;

AIR POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRACER; TRAJECTORY;

EID: 23844432234     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022619     Document Type: Article

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