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Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-785-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-9-785-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
Research article
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08 Jun 2018
Research article |  | 08 Jun 2018

Tagging moisture sources with Lagrangian and inertial tracers: application to intense atmospheric river events

Vicente Pérez-Muñuzuri, Jorge Eiras-Barca, and Daniel Garaboa-Paz

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Two Lagrangian tracer tools are evaluated for studies on atmospheric moisture sources and pathways. Usual Lagrangian methods consider the initial moisture volume to remain constant and the particle to follow flow path lines exactly. In a different approach, the initial volume can be considered to depend on time as it is advected by the flow due to thermodynamic processes. Drag and buoyancy forces must then be considered.
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