Desert Dust

Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process, Form and Change in Drylands

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 517-537

  Washington, Richard ^a   Wiggs, Giles S F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AERONET: Aerosol Robotic Network ground based remote sensing aerosol sensors, as Cimel sun photometers; Desert dust; Flood inundation of Etosha Pan, Namibia and dust events; Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Intercomparison of Longwave and Shortwave Radiation (GERBILS) field campaign; Northern edge of Bod l Depression showing diatomite surface; Particle size distributions of dust samples by wet deposition and dry deposition in Brisbane; Remote sensing of dust satellites, making no discrimination against measurements from remote regions of plane; Satellite derived dust data sets; Temporal changes in dust distribution and controls on dust; Variability in dust emission linked to changing rainfall patterns, driven by El Ni o Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; DEPOSITION; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; PARTICLE SIZE; REMOTE SENSING;

AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; DESERT DUST; DUST DISTRIBUTION; DUST EMISSION; DUST SAMPLES; INTERCOMPARISONS; NAMIBIA; REMOTE REGIONS;

DUST;

EID: 84886216086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470710777.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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