Potential for dust storm detection through aerosol radiative forcing related to atmospheric parameters

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 624-627

  El Askary, Hesham ^a   Kafatos, Menas ^b  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Boundary layer dispersion; Dust storm; Latent heat flux; Outgoing long wave radiation; Sensible heat flux

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; HEAT FLUX; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER DISPERSION; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; DUST STORM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; OUTGOING LONG WAVE RADIATION; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX;

STORMS;

EID: 34948818659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2006.163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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