Pathways of high-latitude dust in the North Atlantic

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 459, Issue , 2017, Pages 170-182

  Baddock, Matthew C ^a   Mockford, Tom ^a   Bullard, Joanna E ^a   Thorsteinsson, Throstur ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

aerosols; Arctic; Greenland; HYSPLIT; Iceland

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TRAJECTORIES;

ARCTIC; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; GREENLAND; HYSPLIT; ICELANDS; PREFERENTIAL PATHWAYS; TRAJECTORY MODELLING; TRAJECTORY SIMULATION;

DUST;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; DUST; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRAJECTORY;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); DENMARK STRAIT; GREENLAND; ICELAND;

EID: 85006266010     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.034     Document Type: Article

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