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29 Jul 2013
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| 29 Jul 2013
Simulations of the transport and deposition of 137Cs over Europe after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident: influence of varying emission-altitude and model horizontal and vertical resolution
N. Evangeliou
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA-UVSQ-CNRS UMR8212, Institut Pierre et Simon Laplace, L'Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
Y. Balkanski
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA-UVSQ-CNRS UMR8212, Institut Pierre et Simon Laplace, L'Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
A. Cozic
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), CEA-UVSQ-CNRS UMR8212, Institut Pierre et Simon Laplace, L'Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
A. P. Møller
Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, CNRS UMR8079, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 362, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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