The LAGRANTO Lagrangian analysis tool - Version 2.0

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2569-2586

  Sprenger, M ^a   Wernli, H ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; FLOW STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOLUTION; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ALPS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84939249439     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-2569-2015     Document Type: Article

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