Tropical troposphere to stratosphere transport of carbon monoxide and long-lived trace species in the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS)

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2895-2916

  Pommrich, R ^a,b,c   Muller R ^a   Groob, J U ^a   Konopka, P ^a   Ploeger, F ^a   Vogel, B ^a   Tao, M ^a   Hoppe, C M ^a   Gunther G ^a   Spelten, N ^a   Hoffmann, L ^a   Pumphrey, H C ^d   Viciani, S ^e   D'Amato, F ^e   Volk, C M ^f   Hoor, P ^g   Schlager, H ^h   Riese, M ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^g JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MIXING RATIO; OZONE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; TRACE GAS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 84911455699     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-2895-2014     Document Type: Article

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