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Saharan dust in the Amazon Basin

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 44 (1992): Issue 2
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|Jan 1992
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v44i2.15434 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 133 - 149
Submitted on: Apr 4, 1991
Accepted on: Oct 2, 1991
Published on: Jan 1, 1992
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 1992 R. Swap, M. Garstang, S. Greco, R. Talbot, P. Kållberg, published by Stockholm University Press
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