Possible linkages between Saharan dust and tropical cyclone rain band invigoration in the eastern Atlantic during NAMMA-06

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Jenkins, Gregory S ^a   Pratt, Aaron S ^a   Heymsfield, Andrew ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT EXHIBITIONS; LIGHTNING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; WATER CONTENT;

AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENTS; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; ATLANTIC; CLOUD CONDENSATION; CLOUD WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; ICE NUCLEI; IN-SITU; PRECIPITATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SAHARAN AIR LAYER (SAL); SAHARAN DUST; TROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN; TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE (TC); TROPICAL DEPRESSION (TD); TROPICAL NORTH ATLANTIC; WEST AFRICA;

TROPICS;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CLOUD WATER; CYCLOGENESIS; DISTURBANCE; DUST STORM; LIGHTNING; RAINBAND; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 48249095995     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034072     Document Type: Article

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