Articles | Volume 6, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-255-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-255-2013
Model description paper
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22 Feb 2013
Model description paper |  | 22 Feb 2013

Implementation of the chemistry module MECCA (v2.5) in the modal aerosol version of the Community Atmosphere Model component (v3.6.33) of the Community Earth System Model

M. S. Long, W. C. Keene, R. Easter, R. Sander, A. Kerkweg, D. Erickson, X. Liu, and S. Ghan

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