Technical Note: A simple procedure for removing temporal discontinuities in ERA-Interim upper stratospheric temperatures for use in nudged chemistry-climate model simulations

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1547-1555

  McLandress, C ^a   Plummer, D A ^b   Shepherd, T G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84894049411     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-1547-2014     Document Type: Article

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