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Quantifying global dust devil occurrence from meteorological analyses

Dust devils and nonrotating dusty plumes are effective uplift mechanisms for fine particles, but their contribution to the global dust budget is uncertain. By applying known bulk thermodynamic criteria to European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) operational analyses, we provide the...

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Autores principales: Jemmett-Smith, Bradley C, Marsham, John H, Knippertz, Peter, Gilkeson, Carl A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4670712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26681815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063078