Are dust storm activities in North China related to Arctic ice-snow cover?

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 52, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 225-230

  Zhang, Jiashen ^a   Peng, Gongbing ^b   Huang, Mei ^c   Zhang, Shihuang ^c  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Arctic ice snow cover; climate change; sand storms; sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST STORM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND SURFACE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW COVER;

ARCTIC; ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33745005248     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.02.007     Document Type: Article

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