Duststorms and mesoscale cloud systems over the east asian deserts in spring

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus

Volumn 5, Issue 3-6, 2005, Pages 159-174

  Takemi, Tetsuya ^a   Seino, Naoko ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convective storm; Dust; Duststorm; Gobi; Taklamakan

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DUST STORM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GOBI DESERT;

EID: 27744522788     PISSN: 15677230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11267-005-0733-0     Document Type: Article

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