Effects of mixing on resolved and unresolved scales on stratospheric age of air

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 7703-7719

  Dietmüller, Simone ^a   Garny, Hella ^a   Plöger, Felix ^b   Jöckel, Patrick ^a   Cai, Duy ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; MIXING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 85021433315     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-7703-2017     Document Type: Article

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