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 …

Mineral dust aerosols impact the energy budget of Earth through interactions with radiation,
clouds, atmospheric chemistry, the cryosphere and biogeochemistry. In this Review, we …

East Asia is a major dust source in the world. Mineral dusts in the atmosphere and their
interactions with clouds and precipitation have great impacts on regional climate in Asia …

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 …

Aerosols are a critical factor in the atmospheric hydrological cycle and radiation budget. As a
major agent for clouds to form and a significant attenuator of solar radiation, aerosols affect …

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 …

The Edition 2 (Ed2) cloud property retrieval algorithm system was upgraded and applied to
the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data for the Clouds and the …

This study examined surface air temperature trends over global land from 1901–2009. It is
found that the warming trend was particularly enhanced, in the boreal cold season …

Many studies have investigated the impacts of aerosol on the intensity and amount of
precipitation, but few have been done so regarding the impacts of aerosol on the start and …

Abstract The Taklimakan Desert (TD) and Gobi Desert (GD) are two of the most important
dust sources in East Asia, and have important impact on energy budgets, ecosystems and …