Climatology of long-range transported asian dust along the West Coast of the United States

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 12,171-12,185

  Creamean, Jessie M ^a,b   Spackman, J Ryan ^a,c   Davis, Sean M ^a,b   White, Allen B ^a  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; CLIMATOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84913529217     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021694     Document Type: Article

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