Assessing sources of airborne mineral dust and other aerosols, in Iraq

Aeolian Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 153-160

  Engelbrecht, Johann P ^a   Jayanty, R K M ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne mineral dust; Dust sources; Iraq dust; Particulate matter (PM) source attribution; Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF); Principal Components Analysis (PCA)

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; DUST; DUST STORM; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

IRAQ;

EID: 84877062300     PISSN: 18759637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeolia.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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