Correlation between east Asian dust storm frequency and PNA

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Gong, Dao Yi ^a   Mao, Rui ^a   Shi, Pei Jun ^a   Fan, Yi Da ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Disaster Reduction Center of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DUST STORM;

DUST;

CORRELATION; DUST STORM; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; JET STREAM; SPATIAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34548598748     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029944     Document Type: Article

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