Ground-based assessment of Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) data for dust transport over the northeastern Mediterranean

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Kubilay, Nilgün ^a   Oguz, Temel ^a   Koçak, Mustafa ^a   Torres, Omar ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALUMINUM; DUST; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; TOMS;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

AVES; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

EID: 20444392077     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GB002370     Document Type: Article

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