Evaluation of backward and forward Lagrangian footprint models in the surface layer

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 93, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 207-223

  Cai, Xuhui ^a   Peng, G ^a   Guo, X ^a   Leclerc, M Y ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 48449105464     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-007-0334-0     Document Type: Article

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