Dust transport from non-East Asian sources to the North Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Hsu, Shih Chieh ^a   Huh, Chih An ^b   Lin, Chuan Yao ^a   Chen, Wei Nai ^a   Mahowald, Natalie M ^c   Liu, Shaw Chen ^a,d   Chou, C C K ^a   Liang, Mao Chang ^a   Tsai, Chuen Jinn ^e   Lin, Fei Jan ^f   Chen, Jen Ping ^d   Huang, Yi Tang ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STORMS;

AEROSOL SAMPLES; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; BIOMASS-BURNING; CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; DUST DEPOSITION; DUST STORM; DUST TRANSPORT; EAST ASIA; EOLIAN DUST; GLOBAL MODELS; INTEGRATED SOURCES; MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA; MODEL SIMULATION; NORTH PACIFIC; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

DUST;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS BURNING; DUST; DUST STORM; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; MOUNTAIN REGION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORY; WESTERLY;

FAR EAST; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84862859809     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051962     Document Type: Article

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