Risks associated with dust hazards are often underappreciated, a gap between the
knowledge pool and public awareness that can be costly for impacted communities. This …

Even though desert dust is the most abundant aerosol by mass in Earth's atmosphere, the
relative contributions of the world's major source regions to the global dust cycle remain …

The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) version 4.10 (V4) level 2
aerosol data products, released in November 2016, include substantial improvements to the …

High altitude mountaintop observatories provide the opportunity to study aerosol properties
in the free troposphere without the added expense and difficulty of making airborne …

Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black
carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of physical properties …

This contribution compares 3-hourly estimates of aerosol optical depth at 550 nm (AOD550)
and Ångström exponent (AE) from two similar reanalysis models, ECMWF's CAMS and …

The CALIOP lidar, carried on the CALIPSO satellite, has been acquiring global atmospheric
profiles since June 2006. This dataset now offers the opportunity to characterize the global 3 …

Premature mortality from current ambient fine particulate (PM2. 5) exposure in India is large,
but the trend under climate change is unclear. Here we estimate ambient PM2. 5 exposure …

Even though desert dust is the most abundant aerosol by mass in Earth's atmosphere,
atmospheric models struggle to accurately represent its spatial and temporal distribution …

Sichuan Basin, located in southwest China, has been ranked as the fourth of heavily air
polluted regions in China partly due to its deep mountain-basin topography. However …