Atmospheric and oceanic dust fluxes in the northeastern tropical Atlantic Ocean: How close a coupling?

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2067-2076

  Bory, A ^a,b   Dulac, F ^a   Moulin, C ^a   Chiapello, I ^c,d   Newton, P P ^a,e   Guelle, W ^a   Lambert, C E ^a   Bergametti, G ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DES SYSTÈMES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES   (France)

^d Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^e OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure (aerosols and particles; geochemical cycles) Oceanography: biological and chemical (geochemistry)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FORCING; DUST; EOLIAN PROCESS;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036969596     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-20-2067-2002     Document Type: Article

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