Short-term modulation of Indian summer monsoon rainfall by West Asian dust

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 308-313

  Vinoj, V ^a,b   Rasch, Philip J ^a   Wang, Hailong ^a   Yoon, Jin Ho ^a   Ma, Po Lun ^a   Landu, Kiranmayi ^a,b   Singh, Balwinder ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHUBANESWAR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE MODELING; DUST; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEATING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE DATA; TIMESCALE;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; NORTH AFRICA; WEST ASIA;

EID: 84897144207     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2107     Document Type: Article

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