Mineral dust aerosols in the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences ModelE atmospheric general circulation model

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Miller, R L ^a,b   Cakmur, R V ^b,c   Perlwitz, J ^a,b   Geogdzhayev, I V ^a,b   Ginoux, Paul ^d   Koch, D ^b,e   Kohfeld, K E ^f   Prigent, Catherine ^g   Ruedy, R ^b   Schmidt, G A ^b,e   Tegen, I ^h  

^a Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; DUST; NATURAL CONVECTION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RAIN; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WIND;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DUST; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33646415901     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD005796     Document Type: Article

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