Understanding the long-term variability of African dust transport across the Atlantic as recorded in both Barbados surface concentrations and large-scale Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) optical thickness

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 110, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Chiapello, Isabelle ^a   Moulin, Cyril ^b   Prospero, Joseph M ^c  

^a Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DUST; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; OPTICAL DEPTH; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27744445845     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JD005132     Document Type: Article

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