What controls the recent changes in African mineral dust aerosol across the Atlantic?

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5735-5747

  Ridley, D A ^a   Heald, C L ^a,b   Prospero, J M ^c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DUST; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS;

EID: 84902163507     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-5735-2014     Document Type: Article

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