Quantifying global dust devil occurrence from meteorological analyses

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1275-1282

  Jemmett Smith, Bradley C ^a   Marsham, John H ^a,b   Knippertz, Peter ^c   Gilkeson, Carl A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b National Centre for Atmospheric Science ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

climatology; dry convection; dust devils; dust emission; dusty plumes; vortices

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DRY CONVECTION; DUST DEVILS; DUST EMISSION; DUSTY PLUMES; EMISSION VALUES; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS;

DUST;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DUST DEVIL; METEOROLOGY; PLUME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPLIFT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84924914677     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063078     Document Type: Article

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