Mean age of air and transport in a CTM: Comparison of different ECMWF analyses

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Geophysical Research Letters

• Publication date

  2007-02-01

• Fields of study

  Physics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1029/2006GL028515
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