Vertical mixing of commercial aviation emissions from cruise altitude to the surface

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Whitt, D B ^a   Jacobson, M Z ^a   Wilkerson, J T ^a   Naiman, A D ^b   Lele, S K ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ATMOSPHERICS; DATA REDUCTION; MIXING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3D SIMULATIONS; AEROSOL PARTICLES; AIRCRAFT EMISSIONS; ARCTIC CIRCLE; COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; CRUISE ALTITUDE; DATA COMPARISONS; E-FOLDING; EXTRATROPICAL; ISENTROPES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MIXING RATIOS; MIXING TIME; PASSIVE TRACERS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; REMOVAL TIME; STATIC STABILITY; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

CIVIL AVIATION;

AIR QUALITY; ALTITUDE; DATA SET; EMISSION; LATITUDE; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; STABILIZATION; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIMESCALE; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 79960900468     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015532     Document Type: Article

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