Transport of carbon-bearing dusts from Iraq to Japan during Iraq's War

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2091-2109

  Tazaki, Kazue ^a   Wakimoto, Rie ^a   Minami, Yukiya ^b   Yamamoto, Masayoshi ^a   Miyata, Koshirou ^a   Sato, Kazuhiro ^a   Saji, Ichiro ^a   Chaerun, S Khodijah ^a   Zhou, Guoping ^a   Morishita, Tomoaki ^a   Asada, Ryuji ^a   Segawa, Hiromi ^a   Imanishi, Hiroki ^a   Kato, Rie ^a   Otani, Yusuke ^a   Watanabe, Tomoko ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ishikawa Agricultural College   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acid rain; Burning; Depleted uranium; Electrical conductivity; Iraq's war; Japan sea coast; NH4+; NO3 ; Oil field; SO42 ; Soot; Transportation; West wind

Indexed keywords

ACID RAIN; CARBON; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DUST; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON-BEARING DUSTS; RAIN WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

CARBON; OIL; RAIN; URANIUM;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CARBON; DUST; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RAINWATER; WET DEPOSITION;

ACID RAIN; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; DISSOLUTION; DUST; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FILTER; ION PAIR CHROMATOGRAPHY; IRAQ; JAPAN; LIGHT; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; POWDER; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEASON; SOOT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WIND; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; IRAQ; JAPAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 1842457719     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.01.028     Document Type: Article

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