Dust storm simulation over Iran using HYSPLIT

Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ashrafi, Khosro ^a   Shafiepour Motlagh, Majid ^a   Aslemand, Alireza ^a   Ghader, Sarmad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dust sources; Dust storms; HYSPLIT; MODIS satellite images; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DUST STORM; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRAJECTORY;

IRAN;

EID: 84904661592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2052336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2052-336X-12-9     Document Type: Article

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