Potential impact of spatial patterns of future atmospheric warming on Asian dust emission

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 37, 2011, Pages 6682-6695

  Tsunematsu, Nobumitsu ^a   Kuze, Hiroaki ^b   Sato, Tomonori ^c   Hayasaki, Masamitsu ^d   Cui, Feifei ^b   Kondoh, Akihiko ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asian dust emission; Dust simulations; Dynamical downscaling; Future global warming; WRF model

Indexed keywords

ASIAN DUST; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; ATMOSPHERIC WARMING; COLD AIR OUTBREAK; DUST EMISSION; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; FUTURE CLIMATE; GOBI DESERT; HIGH LATITUDES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STORM TRACK; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WRF MODEL;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CONTROL; DUST; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEA LEVEL; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORM TRACK;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE; COLD AIR; DUST; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; LATITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SIMULATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ASIA;

EID: 80053904122     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.08.048     Document Type: Article

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