Mineral dust aerosols over the Sahara: Meteorological controls on emission and transport and implications for modeling

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Knippertz, Peter ^a   Todd, Martin C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; STORMS;

AFRICAN EASTERLY WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MINERAL DUST; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COLD POOL; DUST AEROSOLS; DUST DEVILS; DUST DISTRIBUTION; DUST EMISSION; DUST MODELS; EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE; FIELD CAMPAIGN; KEY PROCESS; LOW LEVEL JET; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; MICRO-SCALES; MINERAL DUST AEROSOL; MOIST CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODELING; RECENT PROGRESS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RESEARCH FIELDS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SEASONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SINGLE PROCESS; SOURCE REGION; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

DUST;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

SAHARA;

EID: 84856947014     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011RG000362     Document Type: Article

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