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Modelling of a strong dust event in the complex terrain of the Dead Sea valley during the passage of a gust front Cover

Modelling of a strong dust event in the complex terrain of the Dead Sea valley during the passage of a gust front

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 68 (2016): Issue 1
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|Jan 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v68.29751 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 29751 - 29751
Submitted on: Sep 14, 2015
Accepted on: Jan 19, 2016
Published on: Jan 1, 2016
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
mineral dust,
Dead Sea valley,
complex terrain,
regional modelling,
dust aerosol optical depth

© 2016 Pavel Kishcha, Daniel Rieger, Jutta Metzger, Boris Starobinets, Max Bangert, Heike Vogel, Ulrich Schättler, Pinhas Alpert, Bernhard Vogel, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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