Articles | Volume 8, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-381-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-381-2015
Development and technical paper
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23 Feb 2015
Development and technical paper |  | 23 Feb 2015

Modelling of primary aerosols in the chemical transport model MOCAGE: development and evaluation of aerosol physical parameterizations

B. Sič, L. El Amraoui, V. Marécal, B. Josse, J. Arteta, J. Guth, M. Joly, and P. D. Hamer

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