Seasonal variations in dust concentration and dust emission observed over Horqin Sandy Land area in China from December 2010 to November 2011

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 61, Issue , 2012, Pages 56-65

  Li, Xiaolan ^a,b   Zhang, Hongsheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dust concentration; Dust emission flux; Free convective velocity; Friction velocity; Horqin Sandy Land area

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE VELOCITY; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; DUST EMISSION; FRICTION VELOCITY; LAND AREAS;

DUST; FRICTION; SOIL MOISTURE; STORMS; TRIBOLOGY; VELOCITY;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DUST; DUST STORM; ERODIBILITY; METEOROLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; TURBULENCE; WEATHER STATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHINA; DUST AND DUST RELATED PHENOMENA; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL WATER CONTENT; VELOCITY;

CHINA; HORQIN DESERT;

EID: 84866777887     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.07.007     Document Type: Article

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