Meteorological and dust aerosol conditions over the western Saharan region observed at Fennec Supersite-2 during the intensive observation period in June 2011

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 8426-8447

  Todd, M C ^a,b   Allen, C J T ^c   Bart, M ^d   Bechir, M ^e   Bentefouet, J ^f   Brooks, B J ^d   Cavazos Guerra, C ^a   Clovis, T ^f   Deyane, S ^e   Dieh, M ^e   Engelstaedter, S ^c   Flamant, C ^g   Garcia Carreras, L ^d   Gandega, A ^e   Gascoyne, M ^d   Hobby, M ^d   Kocha, C ^g   Lavaysse, C ^g   Marsham, J H ^d   Martins, J V ^h   McQuaid, J B ^d   Ngamini, J B ⁱ   Parker, D J ^d   Podvin, T ^j   Rocha Lima, A ^h   Traore, S ^e   Wang, Y ^a   Washington, R ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Aeroqual Limited   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e Office National de Météorologie   (United Kingdom)

^f AeroEquip and Conseil ^*  (Cameroon)

^g SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

ⁱ ASECNA   (Senegal)

^j Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

more..

Author keywords

Atlantic Inflow; Dust aerosol; haboobs; Low level jet; Saharan Heat Low; west African monsoon

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATLANTIC INFLOW; DUST AEROSOLS; HABOOBS; HEAT LOW; LOW LEVEL JET; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON;

DUST;

AEROSOL; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; DUST; FORECASTING METHOD; HEAT FLOW; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; TROUGH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SAHARA;

VULPES ZERDA;

EID: 84880854370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50470     Document Type: Article

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