A simple model for Junge’s relationship between concentration fluctuations and residence times for tropospheric trace gases
By: W. G. N. Sunn
Abstract
A simple model is advanced to explain Junge’s empirical result relating the residence times of trace gases in the troposphere to a coefficient of deviation of their concentrations. It is shown that Junge’s result can be derived from a peculiar definition for the concentration variations in space, based only on the spatial variation of the mean concentration. Nevertheless, for sufficiently uniform sources and sinks of the gases, the result can be used to estimate tropospheric residence-times of gases, if account is taken for the interval sampled.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v40i3.15909 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
Language: English
Page range: 229 - 232
Submitted on: Apr 14, 1987
Accepted on: Oct 24, 1987
Published on: Jan 1, 1988
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 1988 W. G. N. Sunn, published by Stockholm University Press
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