Atmospheric input of mineral dust to the western North Pacific region based on direct measurements and a regional chemical transport model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Uematsu, Mitsuo ^a   Wang, Zifa ^b   Uno, Itsushi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DEPOSITION; DUST; MARINE BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE; AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BIOACTIVITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MINERALS;

SPATIAL VARIATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC INPUTS; BACKGROUND AEROSOL; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; INTERCONTINENTAL TRANSPORT; MAXIMUM CONCENTRATIONS; REGIONAL CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODEL; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

AEROSOLS; DUST;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DUST; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0043192601     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016645     Document Type: Article

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