Atmospheric transport towards the Iberian Peninsula in the 3- to 10-day range: Sources of middle-lived pollutants and aerosols

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Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 1041-1047

  Nieto, Raquel ^a,b   Gimeno, Luis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Iberian Peninsula; Lagrangian atmospheric transport model; Sources of aerosols; Sources of middle lived pollutants

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METEOROLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORTH AMERICA; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748961306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2006.208     Document Type: Article

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