Vertically resolved dust optical properties during SAMUM: Tinfou compared to Ouarzazate

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 195-205

  Heese, Birgit ^a   Althausen, Dietrich ^a   Dinter, Tilman ^c   Esselborn, Michael ^d   Müller, Thomas ^a   Tesche, Matthias ^a   Wiegner, Matthias ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SURVEY; BACKSCATTER; DUST; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; OUARZAZATE; SAHARA; SOUSS-MASSA-DRAA;

EID: 58849165770     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00404.x     Document Type: Article

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