Quantifying the effect of mixing on the mean age of air in CCMVal-2 and CCMI-1 models

Published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018

Recommended citation: Dietmuller, S., Eichinger, R., Garny, H., Birner, T., Boenisch, H., Pitari, G., Mancini, E., Visioni, D., Stenke, A., Revell, L., Rozanov, E., Plummer, D. A., Scinocca, J., Jockel, P., Oman, L., Deushi, M., Kiyotaka, S., Kinnison, D. E., Garcia, R., Morgenstern, O., Zeng, G., Stone, K. A., and Schofield, R.: "Quantifying the effect of mixing on the mean age of air in CCMVal-2 and CCMI-1 models", Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 6699-6720, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6699-2018, 2018. https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/18/6699/2018/

Why is the Age of Air slower in most models compared to observations in the stratosphere?

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