Two-year simulations of seasonal and interannual changes of the Saharan dust emissions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 1921-1924

  Marticorena, Béatrice ^a   Bergametti, Gilles ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DES SYSTÈMES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WIND;

ANNUAL CHANGE; DUST EMISSION; DUST EVENT; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; SAHARAN DUST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOURCE REGION;

DUST;

INTERANNUAL DUST EMISSION VARIATION; SAHARAN DUST EMISSIONS; SEASONAL DUST EMISSION VARIATION;

AEROSOL; ANNUAL VARIATION; DUST EMISSION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL;

AFRICA, SAHARA;

EID: 0030183020     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01432     Document Type: Article

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