Possible transcontinental dust transport from North Africa and the Middle East to East Asia

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 3901-3909

  Tanaka, Taichu Y ^a,b   Kurosaki, Yasunori ^a,b   Chiba, Masaru ^a   Matsumura, Takatsugu ^a,b   Nagai, Tomohiro ^a   Yamazaki, Akihiro ^a   Uchiyama, Akihiro ^a   Tsunematsu, Nobumitsu ^c   Kai, Kenji ^c  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Lidar; Long range transport; Numerical simulation; Sun photometer

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; METEOROLOGY; STORMS;

DEPOSITION RATE; DUST STORMS; DUST TRANSPORT; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORIES;

DUST;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DUST;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASIA; DUST; METEOROLOGY; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY; SIMULATION; WEATHER;

ARIDA;

EID: 20744458280     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.03.034     Document Type: Article

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