Potential predictors for spring season dust storm forecast in Inner Mongolia, China

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 97, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 255-263

  Gao, Tao ^a   Zhang, Xuebin ^b   Li, Yiping ^c   Wang, Haimei ^c   Xiao, Sujun ^d   Wulan, ^a   Teng, Qiaobin ^b  

^a Inner Mongolia Meteorological Institute   (China)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Inner Mongolia Observatory   (China)

^d Inner Mongolia Meteorological Data Centre   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST STORM; HINDCASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL MOISTURE; SPRING (SEASON); VEGETATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL; TIANJIN;

EID: 68349097337     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0072-y     Document Type: Article

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