Interactions of Asian mineral dust with Indian summer monsoon: Recent advances and challenges

Q Jin, J Wei, WKM Lau, B Pu, C Wang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The Indian summer monsoon (ISM) is one of the world's strongest monsoon systems that
brings about eighty percent of the annual rainfall to the Indian subcontinent and impacts the …

Complex refractive indices and single-scattering albedo of global dust aerosols in the shortwave spectrum and relationship to size and iron content

C Di Biagio, P Formenti, Y Balkanski… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
The optical properties of airborne mineral dust depend on its mineralogy, size distribution,
and shape, and they might vary between different source regions. To date, large differences …

Two-way coupled meteorology and air quality models in Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of impacts of aerosol feedbacks on meteorology and air quality

C Gao, A Xiu, X Zhang, Q Tong, H Zhao… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric aerosols can exert an influence on meteorology and air quality through aerosol–
radiation interaction (ARI) and aerosol–cloud interaction (ACI), and this two-way feedback …

Declining pre-monsoon dust loading over South Asia: Signature of a changing regional climate

SK Pandey, V Vinoj, K Landu, SS Babu - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Desert dust over the Indian region during pre-monsoon season is known to strengthen
monsoon circulation, by modulating rainfall through the elevated heat pump (EHP) …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal evolution of aerosols and their extreme events in polluted Asian regions during Terra's 20-year observations

Z Hu, Q Jin, Y Ma, B Pu, Z Ji, Y Wang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aerosol pollution is an acute environmental issue in developing countries. Asia has been
experiencing rapid changes in anthropogenic aerosols during the past two decades due to …

[HTML][HTML] An aerosol climatology for global models based on the tropospheric aerosol scheme in the Integrated Forecasting System of ECMWF

A Bozzo, A Benedetti, J Flemming… - Geoscientific Model …, 2020 - gmd.copernicus.org
An aerosol climatology to represent aerosols in the radiation schemes of global atmospheric
models was recently developed. We derived the climatology from a reanalysis of …

Long-range transport of aeolian deposits during the last 32 kyr inferred from rare earth elements and grain-size analysis of sediments from Lake Lugu, Southwestern …

X Zhang, H Zhang, F Chang, P Xie, H Li, H Wu… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Accumulations of aeolian deposits in a range of sedimentary environments provide
evidence for past changes in atmospheric circulation patterns over a range of …

High summertime aerosol loadings over the Arabian Sea and their transport pathways

Q Jin, J Wei, B Pu, ZL Yang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite observations show high aerosol loadings over the Arabian Sea in boreal summer,
which have great impacts on the Indian monsoon due to absorbing dust aerosols. However …

Investigation of June 2020 giant Saharan dust storm using remote sensing observations and model reanalysis

A Asutosh, V Vinoj, N Murukesh, R Ramisetty… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
This paper investigates the characteristics and impact of a major Saharan dust storm during
June 14th–19th 2020 on atmospheric radiative and thermodynamics properties over the …

The greening of Northwest Indian subcontinent and reduction of dust abundance resulting from Indian summer monsoon revival

Q Jin, C Wang - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The trends of both rainfall and circulation strength of the Indian summer monsoon has been
reviving since 2002. Here, using observational data, we demonstrate a statistically …