Transport diagniostics for the lowermost stratosphere
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Observationally derived transport diagnostics for the lowermost stratosphere and their application to the GMI chemistry and transport model S. E. Strahan, B. N. Duncan, and P. Hoor Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Air Chemistry, Mainz, Germany Received: 8 January 2007 – Accepted: 24 January 2007 – Published: 29 January 2007 Correspondence to: Susan Strahan ([email protected])
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