Constraining tropospheric mixing timescales
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Constraining tropospheric mixing timescales using airborne observations and numerical models P. Good, C. Giannakopoulos, F. M. O’Connor, S. R. Arnold, M. de Reus, and H. Schlager National Observatory of Athens, Greece Centre for Atmospheric Science, Cambridge, UK School of the Environment, University of Leeds, UK Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Mainz, Germany German Aerospace Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Received: 27 January 2003 – Accepted: 26 February 2003 – Published: 5 March 2003 Correspondence to: P. Good ([email protected])
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تاریخ انتشار 2003