Technical Note: Adjoint formulation of the TOMCAT atmospheric transport scheme in the Eulerian backtracking framework (RETRO-TOM)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5477-5493

  Haines, P E ^a   Esler, J G ^a   Carver, G D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 84897022022     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-5477-2014     Document Type: Article

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