Impact of an interactive aerosol on the African easterly jet in the NASA GEOS-5 Global Forecasting System

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 504-519

  Reale, Oreste ^a,b   Lau, K M ^a   da Silva, Arlindo ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Africa; Dust or dust storms; Forecasting; Jets

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AFRICAN EASTERLY JET; DUST LEVELS; FORECASTING SYSTEM; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MODELING STUDIES; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; NEAR-SURFACE; NET IMPACT; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; SAHARAN DUST; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

DUST; FORECASTING; NASA; STORMS; USER INTERFACES;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; CLIMATOLOGY; DUST STORM; EASTERLY WAVE; EOS; JET FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AFRICA;

EID: 80052409464     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-10-05025.1     Document Type: Article

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