Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-353-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-353-2013
Model description paper
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12 Mar 2013
Model description paper |  | 12 Mar 2013

Air quality modelling using the Met Office Unified Model (AQUM OS24-26): model description and initial evaluation

N. H. Savage, P. Agnew, L. S. Davis, C. Ordóñez, R. Thorpe, C. E. Johnson, F. M. O'Connor, and M. Dalvi

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