Long tails in deep columns of natural and anthropogenic tropospheric tracers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Neelin, J David ^a,b   Lintner, Benjamin R ^a,b,c   Tian, Baijun ^d   Li, Qinbin ^a,d   Zhang, Li ^a   Patra, Prabir K ^e   Chahine, Moustafa T ^d   Stechmann, Samuel N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION PROBLEM; DATA SETS; DEEP LAYER; EXPONENTIAL TAIL; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; LONG TAIL; NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PASSIVE TRACERS; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; REANALYSIS; SOURCE ATTRIBUTION; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL; TRACER SIMULATIONS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

TROPOSPHERE;

WATER VAPOR;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; DATA SET; GAUSSIAN METHOD; TRACER; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77949299370     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041726     Document Type: Article

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