Determination of the source regions for surface to stratosphere transport: An Eulerian backtracking approach

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1343-1349

  Haines, P E ^a   Esler, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adjoint; atmospheric transport; backtracking; troposphere stratosphere exchange; very short lived species

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADJOINTS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BACKTRACKING; SHORT-LIVED SPECIES; TROPOSPHERE-STRATOSPHERE EXCHANGE;

LOADING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHLORINE; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 84894285505     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058757     Document Type: Article

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