Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1713-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-1713-2013
Research article
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15 Feb 2013
Research article |  | 15 Feb 2013

Simulations of column-averaged CO2 and CH4 using the NIES TM with a hybrid sigma-isentropic (σ-θ) vertical coordinate

D. A. Belikov, S. Maksyutov, V. Sherlock, S. Aoki, N. M. Deutscher, S. Dohe, D. Griffith, E. Kyro, I. Morino, T. Nakazawa, J. Notholt, M. Rettinger, M. Schneider, R. Sussmann, G. C. Toon, P. O. Wennberg, and D. Wunch

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