Eulerian backtracking of atmospheric tracers. I: Adjoint derivation and parametrization of subgrid-scale transport

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 615, 2006, Pages 567-583

  Hourdin, F ^a   Talagrand, O ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Adjoint; Atmospheric transport; Backtracking; Inverse methods

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; DIFFUSION IN GASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TURBULENT FLOW;

ADJOINT DERIVATION; ATMOSPHERIC TRACERS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EULERIAN BACKTRACKING; INVERSE METHODS; RETRO-TRANSPORT EQUATION;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; PARAMETERIZATION; TRACER;

EID: 33645525258     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.198.A     Document Type: Article

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