Decoupling atmospheric and oceanic factors affecting aerosol loading over a cluster of mesoscale North Atlantic eddies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4075-4081

  Lehahn, Yoav ^a   Koren, Ilan ^a   Rudich, Yinon ^a   Bidle, Kay D ^b   Trainic, Miri ^a   Flores, Jorge Michel ^a   Sharoni, Shlomit ^a   Vardi, Assaf ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

atmospheric mesoscale; mesoscale eddies; North Atlantic; sea spray aerosols

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE EDDY; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SEA SPRAY AEROSOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESOSCALE EDDY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84901890712     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059738     Document Type: Article

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