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Shia et al. 1989
Shia, R., Yung, Y.L., Allen, M., Zurek, R.W. and Crisp, D. (1989). Sensitivity study of advection and diffusion coefficients in a two-dimensional strastospheric model using excess carbon 14 data. Journal of Geophysical Research 94: doi: 10.1029/89JD00796. issn: 0148-0227.

Using the California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory two-dimensional transport model, with transport coefficients taken from Yang and Tung (1989), we study the time evolution of excess carbon 14 in the stratosphere and the troposphere from October, 1963 to December, 1966. The model provides a satisfactory simulation of the observed data. Due to the impulsive nature of its source, initial distributions of excess carbon 14 exhibit large spatial gradients. This permits important constraints on the range of transport coefficients in the lower stratosphere to be derived. The standard model use the circulation and eddy diffusivity of the year 1980. Large deviations (by factor of 2) from this standard transport are ruled out by our model. A self-consistently derived Kyy which is small (~109 cm2 s-1) in tropical regions, but is larger (~1010 cm2 s-1) at higher latitudes is preferred. A Kzz as large as 1¿104 cm2 s-1 would be inconsistent with the data. Excess carbon 14 is removed from the atmosphere with surface deposition velocities vS=3¿10-3 cm s-1 and vN=5¿10-3 cm s-1 in the southern and northern hemispheres, respectively. The last result is contrary to the current understanding that the oceans are the dominant sink for excess 14C. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989

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Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Middle atmosphere dynamics
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