The properties of dust aerosol and reducing tendency of the dust storms in northwest China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 5896-5904

  Fu, Peijian ^a   Huang, Jianping ^a   Li, Chunwei ^a   Zhong, Sharon ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian dust storms; Climate change; Mass concentration and optical properties of the dust aerosol; Northwest China

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DUST; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADAR STATIONS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

(PL) PROPERTIES; ADVANCED EQUIPMENT; ASIAN DUST; COLD FLOWS; CURRENT DATA; DUST AEROSOLS; DUST STORMS; ELSEVIER (CO); GOBI DESERT; INTENSITY INDEX; MASS CONCENTRATIONS; MONGOLIA; MONITOR (CO); NORTHWEST CHINA; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PARTICULATE MASS CONCENTRATION; SOURCE REGIONS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER STATIONS;

STORMS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST STORM; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 46749098247     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.03.041     Document Type: Article

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