Quantifying errors in trace species transport modeling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 50, 2008, Pages 19617-19621

  Prather, Michael J ^a   Zhu, Xin ^a   Strahan, Susan E ^b   Steenrod, Stephen D ^b   Rodriguez, Jose M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycles; Model errors; Source inversions; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; TRACER;

ADVECTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

EID: 58149499437     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806541106     Document Type: Article

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