Kinematic and diabatic vertical velocity climatologies from a chemistry climate model

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 6223-6239

  Marinke Hoppe, Charlotte ^a,b   Ploeger, Felix ^a   Konopka, Paul ^a   Müller, Rolf ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; KINEMATICS; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 84971273119     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-6223-2016     Document Type: Article

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