Impact of human-induced desertification on the intensification of Sahel dust emission and export over the last decades

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Moulin, Cyril ^a   Chiapello, Isabelle ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOILS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY;

DESERTIFICATION; DUST EMISSION; SOIL DEGRADATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; DUST;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA SET; DESERTIFICATION; DUST; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL DEGRADATION; TOMS;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; MALI; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

ATMOSPHERIC DUST; DUST EMISSION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; OPTICAL THICKNESS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SOIL DEGRADATION; SURFACE CONCENTRATION; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

EID: 36549059396     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025923     Document Type: Article

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