Articles | Volume 11, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-8231-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-8231-2011
Review article
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15 Aug 2011
Review article |  | 15 Aug 2011

Recent progress in understanding physical and chemical properties of African and Asian mineral dust

P. Formenti, L. Schütz, Y. Balkanski, K. Desboeufs, M. Ebert, K. Kandler, A. Petzold, D. Scheuvens, S. Weinbruch, and D. Zhang

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