Long-term variability of dust events in Iceland (1949-2011)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 13411-13422

  Dagsson Waldhauserova, P ^a,b   Arnalds, O ^a   Olafsson, H ^b,c,d  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; DUST STORM; HAZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; WIND;

ICELAND;

EID: 84918526493     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-13411-2014     Document Type: Article

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