Red dust rain within the Spanish Mediterranean area

Climatic Change

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 215-228

  Sala, José Quereda ^a   Cantos, Jorge Olcina ^b   Chiva, Enrique Montón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL TRANSPORT; BLOODY RAIN DATA; DESERT DUST PARTICLE; RED DUST RAIN; SAHARAN DUST;

SPAIN, MEDITERRANEAN COAST;

EID: 0029768372     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00143711     Document Type: Article

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