Investigating lower stratospheric model transport: Lagrangian calculations of mean age and age spectra in the GCM ECHAM4

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 225-238

  Reithmeier, Christian ^a,b   Sausen, Robert ^a   Grewe, Volker ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b BMW GROUP   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; POLAR VORTEX; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 38849113226     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0294-1     Document Type: Article

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