Studying atmospheric transport through Lagrangian models

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Volumn 92, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 177-178

  Lin, John C ^a   Brunner, Dominik ^a   Gerbig, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EMISSION INVENTORY; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVITY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 79959496315     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011EO210001     Document Type: Article

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