Seasonal variations of stratospheric age spectra in the Goddard Earth Observing System Chemistry Climate Model (GEOSCCM)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Li, Feng ^a,b   Waugh, Darryn W ^c   Douglass, Anne R ^b   Newman, Paul A ^b   Pawson, Steven ^b   Stolarski, Richard S ^b,c   Strahan, Susan E ^a,b   Nielsen, J Eric ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPULSE RESPONSE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AGE SPECTRUM; AIR PARCELS; ANNUAL MEAN; BOUNDARY REGIONS; BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; ISENTROPIC; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMPLIFIED METHOD; TRACER METHODS; TRANSIT TIME; TRANSPORT BARRIER;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AGE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; STRATOSPHERE; TRACER; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84858858441     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016877     Document Type: Article

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