Sensitivity of tracer transport to model resolution, prescribed meteorology and tracer lifetime in the general circulation model ECHAM5

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3385-3396

  Aghedo, A M ^a,b   Rast, S ^a   Schultz, M G ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; METEOROLOGY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TRACER; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84860390221     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-3385-2010     Document Type: Article

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