The effects of desert particles coated with sulfate on rain formation in the eastern Mediterranean

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1511-1523

  Levin, Zev ^a   Ganor, Eliezer ^a   Gladstein, Victor ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; DUST; PARTICULATE MATTER; RAIN FORMATION; SOLUBLE MATERIAL; SULPHATE;

MEDITERRANEAN, (EAST);

EID: 0030422519     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<1511:TEODPC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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