Impacts of the East Asian Monsoon on springtime dust concentrations over China

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 8137-8152

  Lou, Sijia ^a,b   Russell, Lynn M ^a   Yang, Yang ^a,b   Xu, Li ^a   Lamjiri, Maryam A ^a   DeFlorio, Michael J ^a   Miller, Arthur J ^a   Ghan, Steven J ^b   Liu, Ying ^b   Singh, Balwinder ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DUST; EMISSION; MONSOON; RADIATIVE FORCING; SPRING (SEASON); WESTERLY;

CHINA; GOBI DESERT; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84979584484     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD024758     Document Type: Article

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