Seasonality in European red dust/"blood" rain events

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 471-476

  White, Joshua R ^a   Cerveny, Randall S ^a   Balling, Robert C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FUELS; RAIN;

BACK TRAJECTORIES; CENTRAL EUROPE; LAGRANGIAN; NCEP/NCAR; RAIN EVENTS; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SEASONALITY; SINGLE-PARTICLE; TRAJECTORY MODELS;

DUST;

EID: 84860673946     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00142.1     Document Type: Article

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