Global-scale attribution of anthropogenic and natural dust sources and their emission rates based on MODIS Deep Blue aerosol products

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ginoux, Paul ^a   Prospero, Joseph M ^b   Gill, Thomas E ^c   Hsu, N Christina ^d   Zhao, Ming ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AIR QUALITY; CLIMATOLOGY; LAND USE; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

AEROSOL PRODUCT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COLD POOL; DATA SETS; DEEP BLUE; DUST EMISSION; DUST SOURCES; EMISSION RATES; GLOBAL EMISSIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN HEALTH; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MONSOON REGIMES; NORTH AFRICA; OPTICAL DEPTH; SHRUBLANDS; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; SURFACE CONDITIONS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATERBODIES; WIND VELOCITIES;

DUST;

AEROSOL; AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DUST; EMISSION; LAND USE; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WIND VELOCITY;

NORTH AFRICA; SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84865418228     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012RG000388     Document Type: Review

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