The Lagrangian chemistry and transport model ATLAS: Validation of advective transport and mixing

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 153-173

  Wohltmann, I ^a   Rex, M ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MOLLUSCS; SHELLFISH;

BULK DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; CHEMISTRY AND TRANSPORT MODELS; COURANT-FRIEDRICHS-LEWY; HETEROGENEOUS CHEMISTRY; LAGRANGIAN TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL DIFFUSION; STRATOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

MIXING;

ADVECTION; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MIXING; MODEL VALIDATION; STRATOSPHERE;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 84856518252     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2-153-2009     Document Type: Article

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