Dust fallout characteristics within global dust storm major trajectories

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3877-3884

  Al Dousari, Ali M ^a   Al Awadhi, Jasem ^b   Ahmed, Modi ^a  

^a KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Arabia; Dust depositional rates; Sahara Desert; Surface area

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CLAY MINERAL; DUST STORM; FALLOUT; FELDSPAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SILT; TRAJECTORY;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA; ETHIOPIA; GOBI DESERT; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84884206626     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-012-0644-0     Document Type: Article

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