Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

N Bellouin, J Quaas, E Gryspeerdt… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosols interact with radiation and clouds. Substantial progress made over the past 40
years in observing, understanding, and modeling these processes helped quantify the …

Mineral dust aerosol impacts on global climate and climate change

JF Kok, T Storelvmo, VA Karydis, AA Adebiyi… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Mineral dust aerosols impact the energy budget of Earth through interactions with radiation,
clouds, atmospheric chemistry, the cryosphere and biogeochemistry. In this Review, we …

Short-Lived Climate Forcers (Chapter 6)

S Szopa, V Naik, B Adhikary, P Artaxo, T Berntsen… - 2021 - cambridge.org
Short‑lived climate forcers (SLCFs) affect climate and are, in most cases, also air pollutants.
They include aerosols (sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, carbonaceous aerosols, mineral dust …

Dryland photoautotrophic soil surface communities endangered by global change

E Rodriguez-Caballero, J Belnap, B Büdel… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Photoautotrophic surface communities forming biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are crucial
for soil stability as well as water, nutrient and trace gas cycling at regional and global scales …

Desert dust hazards: A global review

NJ Middleton - Aeolian research, 2017 - Elsevier
Dust storms originate in many of the world's drylands and frequently present hazards to
human society, both within the drylands themselves but also outside drylands due to long …

[HTML][HTML] How well do the CMIP6 models simulate dust aerosols?

A Zhao, CL Ryder, LJ Wilcox - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Mineral dust impacts key processes in the Earth system, including the radiation budget,
clouds, and nutrient cycles. We evaluate dust aerosols in 16 models participating in the sixth …

Smaller desert dust cooling effect estimated from analysis of dust size and abundance

JF Kok, DA Ridley, Q Zhou, RL Miller, C Zhao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Desert dust aerosols affect Earth's global energy balance through direct interactions with
radiation, and through indirect interactions with clouds and ecosystems. But the magnitudes …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The greening of the Sahara: Past changes and future implications

FSR Pausata, M Gaetani, G Messori, A Berg… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
In the future, the Sahara and Sahelian regions could experience more rainfall than today as
a result of climate change. Wetter periods, termed African humid periods, occurred in the …

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 …