Implications of high altitude desert dust transport from Western Sahara to Nile Delta during biomass burning season

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3385-3391

  Prasad, Anup K ^a   El Askary, Hesham ^a,b,c   Kafatos, Menas ^a  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

^c NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR REMOTE SENSING AND SPACE SCIENCES   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Black cloud; Dust model; Dust transport; Sahara desert

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS-BURNING; BLACK CLOUD; DUST MODEL; DUST TRANSPORT; SAHARA DESERT;

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AIR QUALITY; BIOMASS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; LANDFORMS; POLLUTION; WASTE INCINERATION;

DUST;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS BURNING; DUST; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MODELING;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; DUST; EGYPT; EXHAUST GAS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; RURAL AREA; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; URBAN AREA; WESTERN SAHARA; WIND;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; DESERT CLIMATE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INCINERATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RIVERS; SEASONS; WIND;

EGYPT; NILE DELTA; SAHARA; WESTERN SAHARA;

EID: 77956611362     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.07.035     Document Type: Article

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