Multiyear observations of the tropical Atlantic atmosphere: Multidisciplinary applications of the NOAA aerosols and ocean science expeditions

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 765-789

  Nalli, Nicholas R ^a   Joseph, Everette ^b   Morris, Vernon R ^b   Barnet, Christopher D ^a   Wolf, Walter W ^a   Wolfe, Daniel ^c   Minnett, Peter J ^d   Szczodrak, Malgorzata ^d   Izaguirre, Miguel A ^d   Lumpkin, Rick ^e   Xie, Hua ^c   Smirnov, Alexander ^f   King, Thomas S ^a   Wei, Jennifer ^a  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN DUST; ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; HOWARD UNIVERSITY; IN-SITU; INTENSIVE OBSERVING PERIODS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEAN SCIENCE; SMOKE AEROSOLS; SUB-SAHARAN; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

DUST; REMOTE SENSING; SHIPS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 79961043498     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011BAMS2997.1     Document Type: Article

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