Effect of the strong wind and land cover in dust source regions on the Asian dust event over Japan from 2000 to 2011

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-80

  Kimura, Reiji ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84899888911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2012-020     Document Type: Article

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