Direct wind measurements of Saharan dust events from Terra and Aqua satellites

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Koren, Ilan ^a,b   Kaufman, Yoram J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DUST; ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METEOROLOGY;

BODOLE DEPRESSIONS; WIND MEASUREMENTS; WIND PROPERTIES;

WIND;

DUST STORM; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; WIND DIRECTION; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 18544399928     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019338     Document Type: Article

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