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Original Articles

Atmospheric response to Saharan dust deduced from ECMWF reanalysis (ERA) temperature increments

P. KishchaDepartment of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel;Correspondence[email protected]
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P. AlpertDepartment of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel;
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J. BarkanDepartment of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel;
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I. KirschnerMax-Planck-Institute for Meteorology,Hamburg, 20146, Germany;
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B. MachenhauerDanish Meteorological Institute,Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark
Pages 901-913 | Received 21 May 2002, Accepted 20 Feb 2003, Published online: 15 Dec 2016

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