Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4077-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4077-2022
Development and technical paper
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25 May 2022
Development and technical paper |  | 25 May 2022

Effects of vertical ship exhaust plume distributions on urban pollutant concentration – a sensitivity study with MITRAS v2.0 and EPISODE-CityChem v1.4

Ronny Badeke, Volker Matthias, Matthias Karl, and David Grawe

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