The instability associated with the cross-Atlantic transport of Saharan dust and its meteorological implications

87th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wong, Sun ^a   Dessler, Andrew E ^a   Colarco, Peter R ^b   Da Silva, Arlindo ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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