On Saharan Air Layer Stability and Suppression of Convection over the Northern Tropical Atlantic: Case Study Analysis of a 2007 Dust Outflow Event
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Instrumentation and Data Collection
3. Data Analysis
4. Assessment of Data Analysis
5. Summary and Future Work
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Flores, A.; Sakai, R.K.; Joseph, E.; Nalli, N.R.; Smirnov, A.; Demoz, B.; Morris, V.R.; Wolfe, D.; Chiao, S. On Saharan Air Layer Stability and Suppression of Convection over the Northern Tropical Atlantic: Case Study Analysis of a 2007 Dust Outflow Event. Atmosphere 2023, 14, 707. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14040707
Flores A, Sakai RK, Joseph E, Nalli NR, Smirnov A, Demoz B, Morris VR, Wolfe D, Chiao S. On Saharan Air Layer Stability and Suppression of Convection over the Northern Tropical Atlantic: Case Study Analysis of a 2007 Dust Outflow Event. Atmosphere. 2023; 14(4):707. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14040707
Chicago/Turabian StyleFlores, Adrian, Ricardo K. Sakai, Everette Joseph, Nicholas R. Nalli, Alexander Smirnov, Belay Demoz, Vernon R. Morris, Daniel Wolfe, and Sen Chiao. 2023. "On Saharan Air Layer Stability and Suppression of Convection over the Northern Tropical Atlantic: Case Study Analysis of a 2007 Dust Outflow Event" Atmosphere 14, no. 4: 707. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14040707