High‐latitude dust in the Earth system

JE Bullard, M Baddock, T Bradwell… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Natural dust is often associated with hot, subtropical deserts, but significant dust events have
been reported from cold, high latitudes. This review synthesizes current understanding of …

The influence of hydrology on the dynamics of land-terminating sectors of the Greenland ice sheet

BJ Davison, AJ Sole, SJ Livingstone… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Coupling between runoff, hydrology, basal motion, and mass loss (“hydrology-dynamics”) is
a critical component of the Greenland Ice Sheet system. Despite considerable research …

Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high latitude dust sources

O Meinander… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Dust particles from high latitudes have a potentially large local, regional, and global
significance to climate and the environment as short-lived climate forcers, air pollutants, and …

Substantial contribution of northern high‐latitude sources to mineral dust in the Arctic

CD Groot Zwaaftink, H Grythe, H Skov… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In the Arctic, impurities in the atmosphere and cryosphere can strongly affect the
atmospheric radiation and surface energy balance. While black carbon has hence received …

Preferential dust sources: A geomorphological classification designed for use in global dust‐cycle models

JE Bullard, SP Harrison, MC Baddock… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We present a simple theoretical land‐surface classification that can be used to determine
the location and temporal behavior of preferential sources of terrestrial dust emissions. The …

High-latitude dust over the North Atlantic: inputs from Icelandic proglacial dust storms

JM Prospero, JE Bullard, R Hodgkins - science, 2012 - science.org
Mineral aerosols play an important role in the atmosphere-ocean climate system. Research
has focused almost exclusively on sources in low-latitude arid regions, but here we show …

[HTML][HTML] Relative importance of high-latitude local and long-range-transported dust for Arctic ice-nucleating particles and impacts on Arctic mixed-phase clouds

Y Shi, X Liu, M Wu, X Zhao, Z Ke… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Dust particles, serving as ice-nucleating particles (INPs), may impact the Arctic surface
energy budget and regional climate by modulating the mixed-phase cloud properties and …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of the dust optical depth across spatiotemporal scales with the MIDAS global dataset (2003–2017)

A Gkikas, E Proestakis, V Amiridis… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Quantifying the dust optical depth (DOD) and its uncertainty across spatiotemporal scales is
key to understanding and constraining the dust cycle and its interactions with the Earth …

Dust from the dark region in the western ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet

IGM Wientjes, RSW Van de Wal, GJ Reichart… - The …, 2011 - tc.copernicus.org
A dark region tens of kilometres wide is located in the western ablation zone of the
Greenland ice sheet. The dark appearance is caused by higher amounts of dust relative to …

Contemporary glacigenic inputs to the dust cycle

JE Bullard - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of glacigenic dust in the Earth's system during glacial periods is widely
acknowledged. Under contemporary conditions, the world's largest dust sources are in low …