New version of the TOMCAT/SLIMCAT off-line chemical transport model: Intercomparison of stratospheric tracer experiments

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 617, 2006, Pages 1179-1203

  Chipperfield, Martyn P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of air; CTM; ECMWF; ERA 40; Tape recorder

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; TAPE RECORDERS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODEL (CTM); STRATOSPHERIC DIABATIC; STRATOSPHERIC TRACER;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATOSPHERE; TRACER; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 33746239470     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.51     Document Type: Article

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