Effects of soil and land surface conditions in summer on dust outbreaks in the following spring in a Mongolian grassland

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-72

  Kurosaki, Yasunori ^a   Shinoda, Masato ^a   Mikami, Masao ^b   Nandintsetseg, Banzragch ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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EID: 80054948056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2011-018     Document Type: Article

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