A 45-year time series of dune mobility indicating constant windiness over the central Sahara

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Vermeesch, P ^a   Leprince, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS;

'HOT SPOT'; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BARCHAN DUNES; DESERT AREA; DUNE MOBILITY; DUST STORM; FIELD MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; MIGRATION RATES; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING TOOLS; WIND VELOCITIES;

TIME SERIES;

DUNE; DUST STORM; GLOBAL WARMING; METEOROLOGY; MOBILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SAHARA;

EID: 84864469409     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052592     Document Type: Article

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