Summertime trans-Pacific transport of Asian dust

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Yumimoto, K ^a,b   Eguchi, K ^a   Uno, I ^a   Takemura, T ^a   Liu, Z ^c   Shimizu, A ^d   Sugimoto, N ^d   Strawbridge, K ^e  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RADAR; STORMS;

ASIAN DUST; COLD FRONT; COMBINED ANALYSIS; DUST EVENT; DUST INJECTION; DUST LAYER; DUST PARTICLE; DUST STORM; GROUND BASED; NUMERICAL MODELS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRESSURE PATTERNS; SPACE-BORNE LIDAR; STEEP SLOPE; SURFACE WINDS; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; WIND FIELD;

DUST;

AIRBORNE SENSING; DUST; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SLOPE; SUMMER;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 77957710332     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043995     Document Type: Article

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