Dustfall in China's western loess plateau as influenced by dust storm and haze events

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1699-1703

  Liu, L Y ^a,b   Shi, P J ^a   Gao, S Y ^a,b   Zou, X Y ^a   Erdon, H ^a   Yan, P ^a   Li, X Y ^c   Ta, W Q ^c   Wang, J H ^c   Zhang, C L ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Dust storm and dust haze; Dustfall; Loess Plateau; PM10

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; DUST; STORMS;

DUST DEPOSITION; DUST STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

STORM WATER;

DUST STORM; HAZE; LOESS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DUST; FALLING; HAZE; LOESS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WEIGHT; WET DEPOSITION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 10744233016     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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