Wind modeling of Chihuahuan Desert dust outbreaks

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 347-354

  Rivera Rivera, Nancy I ^a   Gill, Thomas E ^a   Gebhart, Kristi A ^b   Hand, Jennifer L ^c   Bleiweiss, Max P ^d   Fitzgerald, Rosa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chihuahuan Desert; Dust; HYSPLIT; MM5; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; LANDFORMS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; STORMS; TRAJECTORIES;

AIR MASSES; AND MODELS; BACK TRAJECTORIES; CASE STUDIES; CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; DESERT DUSTS; DUST EVENTS; DUST SOURCES; DUST STORMS; DUSTY DAYS; HYSPLIT; ME-XICO; MESOSCALE MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL PATTERNS; METROPOLITAN AREAS; MINERAL AEROSOLS; MM5; NORTH AMERICA; RESIDENCE TIMES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE CYCLONES; WIND SPEEDS;

DUST;

AEROSOL; AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DESERT; DUST; DUST STORM; METROPOLITAN AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WIND;

CHIHUAHUA; CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; EL PASO; GREAT PLAINS; JUAREZ; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57949115104     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.069     Document Type: Article

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