Increase in African dust flux at the onset of commercial agriculture in the Sahel region

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2010-07-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature09213PMID 20613839
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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