A vertical profile of PM10 dust concentrations measured during a regional dust event identified by MODIS Terra, western Queensland, Australia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  McGowan, Hamish A ^a   Clark, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST; HAZE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUME; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 50849132252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000765     Document Type: Article

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