Parameterization of vertical tracer transport due to deep cumulus convection in a global transport model and its evaluation with 222Radon measurements

J. Feichter; P. J. Crutzen

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v42i1.15195

Parameterization of vertical tracer transport due to deep cumulus convection in a global transport model and its evaluation with 222Radon measurements

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 42 (1990): Issue 1

By: J. Feichter and P. J. Crutzen

Open Access

|Jan 1990

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