Dust devils on Earth and Mars

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Balme, Matt ^a,b   Greeley, Ronald ^c  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; DUST DEVIL; EARTH; HAZE; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; VORTEX; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 33748122491     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005RG000188     Document Type: Article

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