Seasonal variability of modern dust over the Loess Plateau of China

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2003, Pages

  Sun, Donghuai ^a,b   Chen, Fahu ^c   Bloemendal, Jan ^d   Su, Ruixia ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese loess; Modern dust

Indexed keywords

DUST; LOESS; PARTICLE SIZE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

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

EID: 19244378482     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003jd003382     Document Type: Article

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