Control of atmospheric export of dust from North Africa by the North Atlantic Oscillation

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6634, 1997, Pages 691-694

  Moulin, Cyril ^a   Lambert, Claude E ^b   Dulac, François ^b   Dayan, Uri ^c  

^a DIF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONTROL SYSTEM; DUST; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DESERT; DUST; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; TRANSPORT PROCESSES;

AFRICA, (NORTH); ATLANTIC, (NORTH); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0030620135     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42679     Document Type: Article

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