Effects of point source emission heights in WRF-STILT: a step towards exploiting nocturnal observations in models

Abstract. An appropriate representation of point source emissions in atmospheric transport models is very challenging. In the Stochastic Time Inverted Lagrangian Transport model (STILT), all point source emissions are typically released from the surface, meaning that the actual emission stack height...

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Hauptverfasser: Maier, Fabian (VerfasserIn) , Gerbig, Christoph (VerfasserIn) , Levin, Ingeborg (VerfasserIn) , Super, Ingrid (VerfasserIn) , Marshall, Julia (VerfasserIn) , Hammer, Samuel (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 10 Dec 2021
In: Geoscientific model development
Year: 2021, Pages: 1-25
ISSN:1991-9603
DOI:10.5194/gmd-2021-386
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-386
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Verfasserangaben:Fabian Maier, Christoph Gerbig, Ingeborg Levin, Ingrid Super, Julia Marshall, and Samuel Hammer

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