Sensitivity of Asian dust storm to natural and anthropogenic factors

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Gong, S L ^a,b   Zhang, X Y ^b   Zhao, T L ^c   Barrie, L A ^a,d  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; LANDFORMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; DESERTIFICATION MAPS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DESERTIFICATION; DUST STORM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 3042823713     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019502     Document Type: Article

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