Computer support to run models of the atmosphere. Final report
This research is focused on a better quantification of the variations in CO{sub 2} exchanges between the atmosphere and biosphere and the factors responsible for these exchangers. The principal approach is to infer the variations in the exchanges from variations in the atmospheric CO{sub 2} distribution. The principal tool involves using a global three-dimensional tracer transport model to advect and convect CO{sub 2} in the atmosphere. The tracer model the authors used was developed at the Goddard institute for Space Studies (GISS) and is derived from the GISS atmospheric general circulation model. A special run of the GCM is made to save high-frequency winds and mixing statistics for the tracer model.
- Research Organization:
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, New York, NY (United States). Goddard Inst. for Space Studies
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AI05-83OR21383
- OSTI ID:
- 383603
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/OR/21383-T1; ON: DE97000510; TRN: AHC29621%%48
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 30 Aug 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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