Saharan dust: Sources and trajectories

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 165-181

  Middleton, N J ^a   Goudie, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Desert dust; Dust sources; Long range transport; Sahara; Total ozone mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)

Indexed keywords

DESERT; DUST; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; TOMS; TRAJECTORY;

AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 0034940175     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-5661.00013     Document Type: Article

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