Saharan dust over the eastern mediterranean: Model sensitivity

NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 358-366

  Kishcha, Pavel ^a   Nickovic, Slobodan ^b   Ganor, Eliezer ^b   Kordova, Levana ^b   Alpert, Pinhas ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Forecast; PM10 measurements; Saharan dust

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051720423     PISSN: 18746519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8453-9_39     Document Type: Chapter

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