Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges

J Huang, Y Li, C Fu, F Chen, Q Fu, A Dai… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Drylands are home to more than 38% of the world's population and are one of the most
sensitive areas to climate change and human activities. This review describes recent …

A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system

A Adebiyi, JF Kok, BJ Murray, CL Ryder, JBW Stuut… - Aeolian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Mineral dust particles suspended in the atmosphere span more than three orders of
magnitude in diameter, from< 0.1 µm to more than 100 µm. This wide size range makes dust …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of the world's main dust source regions to the global cycle of desert dust

JF Kok, AA Adebiyi, S Albani… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A global assessment of precipitation chemistry and deposition of sulfur, nitrogen, sea salt, base cations, organic acids, acidity and pH, and phosphorus

R Vet, RS Artz, S Carou, M Shaw, CU Ro, W Aas… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - Elsevier
A global assessment of precipitation chemistry and deposition has been carried out under
the direction of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Global Atmosphere Watch …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

The fertilizing role of African dust in the Amazon rainforest: A first multiyear assessment based on data from Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite …

H Yu, M Chin, T Yuan, H Bian, LA Remer… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The productivity of the Amazon rainforest is constrained by the availability of nutrients, in
particular phosphorus (P). Deposition of long‐range transported African dust is recognized …

The global distribution of mineral dust and its impacts on the climate system: A review

OA Choobari, P Zawar-Reza, A Sturman - Atmospheric Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Mineral dust aerosols, the tiny soil particles suspended in the atmosphere, have a key role in
the atmospheric radiation budget and hydrological cycle through their radiative and cloud …

Record-breaking aerosol levels explained by smoke injection into the stratosphere

E Hirsch, I Koren - Science, 2021 - science.org
The early months of 2020 showed record-breaking levels of aerosol optical depth (AOD)
over the Southern Hemisphere (SH). Apart from the tropics, monthly AOD values over most …

MODIS 3 km aerosol product: algorithm and global perspective

LA Remer, S Mattoo, RC Levy… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - amt.copernicus.org
After more than a decade of producing a nominal 10 km aerosol product based on the dark
target method, the MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aerosol team …

Online analysis enhances use of NASA earth science data

JG Acker, G Leptoukh - Eos, Transactions American …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Giovanni, the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC)
Interactive Online Visualization and Analysis Infrastructure, has provided researchers with …