Potential dust emissions from the southern Kalahari's dunelands

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 307-314

  Bhattachan, Abinash ^a   D'Odorico, Paolo ^a   Okin, Gregory S ^b   Dintwe, Kebonyethata ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUNE FIELD; DUST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; EOLIAN PROCESS; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; REMOBILIZATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VEGETATION COVER;

KALAHARI DESERT;

EID: 84877656380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrf.20043     Document Type: Article

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