Quantifying atmospheric transport, chemistry, and mixing using a new trajectory-box model and a global atmospheric-chemistry GCM

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 267-280

  Riede, H ^a   Jockel P ^a   Sander, R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MIXING; TRAJECTORIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHEMISTRY TRANSPORT MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KINEMATIC TRAJECTORIES; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; QUANTIFICATION METHODS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TRAJECTORY MODELING;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887213623     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2-267-2009     Document Type: Article

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