Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-957-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-957-2014
Research article
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27 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 27 Jan 2014

Modeled global effects of airborne desert dust on air quality and premature mortality

D. Giannadaki, A. Pozzer, and J. Lelieveld

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