Dust emissions created by low-level rotary-winged aircraft flight over desert surfaces

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1043-1053

  Gillies, J A ^a   Etyemezian, V ^a   Kuhns, H ^a   McAlpine, J D ^a   King, J ^a   Uppapalli, S ^a   Nikolich, G ^a   Engelbrecht, J ^a  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust emissions; Military testing and training activities; Rotary winged aircraft

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; AIRCRAFT FLIGHT; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; DESERT SOILS; DESERT SURFACES; DUST EMISSION; EMISSION RATES; FORWARD SPEED; FUGITIVE EMISSIONS; GROUND-BASED VEHICLES; MILITARY TESTING; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RESIDENCE TIME; ROTARY-WINGED AIRCRAFT; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SOIL SURFACES; SPEED INCREASE; TEST AIRCRAFTS; TEST SURFACES; TRAINING ACTIVITIES; TRAVEL SPEED; UNPAVED ROADS; YUMA PROVING GROUNDS;

DUST; HELICOPTER ROTORS; LANDFORMS; MILITARY VEHICLES; OFF ROAD VEHICLES; ROADS AND STREETS; SHEAR STRESS; SOILS; SPEED; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

AIRCRAFT;

AIRCRAFT EMISSION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DUST; MILITARY APPLICATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SHEAR STRESS;

AIR POLLUTION; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; DESERT; DUST; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VELOCITY;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES; YUMA COUNTY [ARIZONA];

YUMA;

EID: 75249105418     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.12.018     Document Type: Article

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