What caused a recent increase in dust outbreaks over East Asia?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Kurosaki, Yasunori ^a   Shinoda, Masato ^a   Mikami, Masao ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; WIND EFFECTS;

DECADAL CHANGE; EAST ASIA; ERODIBILITY; EROSIVITY; HEXI CORRIDOR; INNER MONGOLIA; LAND SURFACE; MONGOLIA; OUTBREAK FREQUENCY; PREVIOUS YEAR; STRONG WINDS; WIND EROSIONS; WIND SPEED; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

DUST;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DECADAL VARIATION; DUST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; ERODIBILITY; GRASS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; GANSU; HEXI CORRIDOR; MONGOLIA; NEI MONGGOL;

POACEAE;

EID: 79958803657     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047494     Document Type: Article

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