Total suspended particulate matter emissions at high friction velocities from desert landforms

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Bacon, Steven N ^a   McDonald, Eric V ^a   Amit, Rivka ^b   Enzel, Yehouda ^c   Crouvi, Onn ^b,c,d  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ARIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DESERT; DUST; EROSION RATE; ERROR CORRECTION; FRICTION; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WIND EROSION;

EID: 80052537364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF001965     Document Type: Article

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