Particle size traces modern Saharan dust transport and deposition across the equatorial North Atlantic

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 13697-13710

  Van Der Does, Michèlle ^a   Korte, Laura F ^a   Munday, Chris I ^a   Brummer, Geert Jan A ^a,b   Stuut, Jan Berend W ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATE MODELING; DEPOSITION; DUST; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PARTICLE SIZE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84979086024     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-13697-2016     Document Type: Article

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