Observation operator for the assimilation of aerosol type resolving satellite measurements into a chemical transport model

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 10435-10452

  Schroedter Homscheidt, M ^a   Elbern, H ^b,c   Holzer Popp, T ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DUST; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; SAMPLING BIAS; SATELLITE DATA; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOOT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

SAHARA;

EID: 78149311137     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-10435-2010     Document Type: Article

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