Profile observations of the Saharan air layer during AEROSE 2004

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Nalli, Nicholas R ^a,b   Clemente Colón, Pablo ^b   Morris, Vernon ^c   Joseph, Everette ^c   Szczodrak, Malgorzata ^d   Minnett, Peter J ^d   Shannahoff, Jonathan ^e   Goldberg, Mitchell D ^b   Barnet, Chris ^b   Wolf, Walter W ^a,b   Feltz, Wayne F ^f   Knuteson, Robert O ^f  

^a QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e NOAA Ship Ronald H Brown Marine Operations Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; PHOTOMETERS; SATELLITES; SENSORS;

AEROSOL AND OCEAN SCIENCE EXPEDITION (AEROSE); CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS; SAHARAN AIR LAYER (SAL); SAMPLING FREQUENCY;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

AIR MASS; DUST; VERTICAL PROFILE;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SAHARA; WORLD;

EID: 20444488393     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL022028     Document Type: Article

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