Newly desertified regions in Iraq and its surrounding areas: Significant novel sources of global dust particles

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 116, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-10

  Moridnejad, Ali ^a   Karimi, Neamat ^b   Ariya, Parisa A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Desertification; Dust storm; Middle East; Source identification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DESERTIFICATION; DUST; DUST STORM; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA;

IRAQ; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 84921471066     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.01.008     Document Type: Article

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