Antarctic oscillation and the dust weather frequency in North China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Fan, Ke ^a,b   Wang, Huijun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; OSCILLATIONS; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; DUST WEATHER EVENTS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DUST STORM; TELECONNECTION;

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

EID: 4143129843     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019465     Document Type: Article

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