Multi-satellite observation of an intense dust event over Southwestern China

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 263-270

  Li, Rong ^a,b   Gong, Jianhua ^a,c   Zhou, Jieping ^a   Sun, Wenyi ^a,b   Ibrahim, Abdoul Nasser ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Zhejiang CAS Application Center for Geoinformatics   (China)

Author keywords

Dust storm; Satellites; Southwestern China

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGY; SATELLITES; SEDIMENTS; STORMS;

DUST STORM; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MULTI-SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; MULTIPLE SATELLITES; SOUTHWESTERN CHINA; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WESTERN SICHUAN BASIN;

DUST;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DUST STORM; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SATELLITE DATA; WIND DIRECTION;

CHINA;

EID: 84961290978     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2014.02.0031     Document Type: Article

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