Analysis of winter dust activity off the coast of West Africa using a new 24-year over-water advanced very high resolution radiometer satellite dust climatology

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Evan, Amato T ^a,b   Heidinger, Andrew K ^c   Knippertz, Peter ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; DUST; METEOSAT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; REMOTE SENSING; TOMS; VEGETATION INDEX; WINTER;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33750606401     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006336     Document Type: Article

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