Assimilation of IASI satellite CO fields into a global chemistry transport model for validation against aircraft measurements

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4493-4512

  Klonecki, A ^a   Pommier, M ^b,k   Clerbaux, C ^b,c   Ancellet, G ^b   Cammas, J P ^d   Coheur, P F ^c   Cozic, A ^e   Diskin, G S ^f   Hadji Lazaro, J ^b   Hauglustaine, D A ^e   Hurtmans, D ^c   Khattatov, B ^g   Lamarque, J F ^g   Law, K S ^b   Nedelec, P ^d   Paris, J D ^e   Podolske, J R ^h   Prunet, P ^a   Schlager, H ⁱ   Szopa, S ^e   Turquety, S ^j   more..

^a NOVELTIS ^*  (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^f NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^h NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^j LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^k ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ASSIMILATION; MIXING RATIO; MODEL VALIDATION; SATELLITE; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84861492675     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-4493-2012     Document Type: Article

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