Articles | Volume 13, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7183-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7183-2013
Research article
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29 Jul 2013
Research article |  | 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, Y. Balkanski, A. Cozic, and A. P. Møller

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