Case study of a Chinese dust plume reaching the French Alps

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Grousset, France E ^a,b   Ginoux, Paul ^c   Bory, Aloys ^b,d   Biscaye, Pierre E ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ISOTOPES;

POLLUTANTS; BACK TRAJECTORIES; DUST DEPOSITION; GLOBAL MODELING; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MEASUREMENTS OF; ND ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POTENTIAL SOURCES;

GEOPHYSICS; DUST;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DUST; PROVENANCE; TRAJECTORY;

ALPS; FRANCE;

EID: 0042190648     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016833     Document Type: Article

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