The global cycle of desert dust aerosols responds strongly to climate and human
perturbations, and, in turn, impacts climate and biogeochemistry. Here we focus on desert …

Our understanding of the global dust cycle is limited by a dearth of information about dust
sources, especially small‐scale features which could account for a large fraction of global …

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 …

Atmospheric aerosol particles serve as condensation nuclei for the formation of both, cloud
droplets and atmospheric ice particles. As a result, they exert a substantial influence on the …

The natural environment is a major source of atmospheric aerosols, including dust,
secondary organic material from terrestrial biogenic emissions, carbonaceous particles from …

Atmospheric mineral dust has recently become an important research field in Earth system
science because of its impacts on radiation, clouds, atmospheric dynamics and chemistry …

Aeolian processes affect the biosphere in a wide variety of contexts, including landform
evolution, biogeochemical cycles, regional climate, human health, and desertification …

Aerosol mixtures composed of coarse mode desert dust combined with fine mode
combustion generated aerosols (from fossil fuel and biomass burning sources) were …

Dust storms have a number of impacts upon the environment including radiative forcing, and
biogeochemical cycling. They transport material over many thousands of kilometres. They …

This study presents a novel methodology for the remote monitoring of aerosol components
over large spatial and temporal domains. The concept is realized within the GRASP …