The importance of source region identification and their properties for soil-derived dust: The case of Harmattan dust sources for eastern West Africa

Contributions to Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 141-150

  Herrmann, Ludger ^a   Stahr, Karl ^a   Jahn, Reinhold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; DUST; PROVENANCE;

AFRICA;

EID: 0032834847     PISSN: 00058173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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