TOMS and METEOSAT satellite records of the variability of Saharan dust transport over the Atlantic during the last two decades (1979-1997)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Chiapello, I ^a   Moulin, C ^b  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; METEOSAT SATELLITES; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OPTICAL THICKNESS; QUANTITATIVE INDICES; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

DUST;

EID: 0037092311     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013767     Document Type: Article

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