Monitoring and predicting saharan desert dust events in the eastern mediterranean

Weather

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 359-365

  Michaelides, S ^a   Evripidou, P ^b   Kallos, G ^c  

^a Meteorological Service of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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EID: 0000902317     PISSN: 00431656     EISSN: 14778696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1477-8696.1999.tb05535.x     Document Type: Article

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