The fate of saharan dust across the atlantic and implications for a central american dust barrier

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 8415-8431

  Nowottnick, E ^a   Colarco, P ^b   Da Silva, A ^b   Hlavka, D ^b   McGill, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CALIPSO; DUST; EOS; MODIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRACER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 80051931544     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-8415-2011     Document Type: Article

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