Regional characteristics of dust storms in China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 29, 2004, Pages 4895-4907

  Qian, Weihong ^a   Tang, Xu ^a   Quan, Linsheng ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jinan Air Traffic Mgmt Ctr of CAAC   (China)

Author keywords

China; Dust storms; Regional characteristics; Rotated empirical orthogonal function

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; DUST; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CYCLONE ACTIVITY; ROTATED EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (REOF);

STORMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DECADAL VARIATION; DUST STORM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYCLONE SEPARATOR; DUST; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 4043081303     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.05.038     Document Type: Article

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