Refinements in the use of equivalent latitude for assimilating sporadic inhomogeneous stratospheric tracer observations, 1: Detecting transport of Pinatubo aerosol across a strong vortex edge

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1823-1836

  Good, P ^a   Pyle, J ^b  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 7244245556     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-4-1823-2004     Document Type: Article

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