Field measurements of horizontal forward motion velocities of terrestrial dust devils: Towards a proxy for ambient winds on Mars and Earth
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Please cite this article as: Balme, M.R., Pathare, A., Metzger, S.M., Towner, M.C., Lewis, S.R., Spiga, A., Fenton, L., Renno, N.O., Elliott, H.M., Saca, F.A., Michaels, T., Russell, P., Verdasca, J., Field measurements of horizontal forward motion velocities of terrestrial dust devils: Towards a proxy for ambient winds on Mars and Earth, Icarus (2012), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2012.08.021
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