Bulk composition of northern African dust and its source sediments—A compilation

D Scheuvens, L Schütz, K Kandler, M Ebert… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of bulk compositional data of northern African dust and its
potential source sediments and includes elemental, isotope and mineralogical data …

The role of African dust in the formation of Quaternary soils on Mallorca, Spain and implications for the genesis of Red Mediterranean soils

DR Muhs, J Budahn, A Avila, G Skipp… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
African dust additions explain the origin of terra rossa soils that are common on the
carbonate-platform island of Mallorca, Spain. Mineralogical and geochemical analyses …

[書籍][B] Desert dust in the global system

AS Goudie, NJ Middleton - 2006 - books.google.com
Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world's drylands, are a
vital component of the environment. This is because of their role in biogeochemical cycling …

The contemporary physical and chemical flux of aeolian dust: A synthesis of direct measurements of dust deposition

CR Lawrence, JC Neff - Chemical Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
The deposition of aeolian, or windblown, dust is widely recognized as an important physical
and chemical flux to ecosystems. Dust deposition adds exogenous mineral and organic …

[書籍][B] Global environments through the quaternary: exploring evironmental change

DE Anderson, A Goudie, A Parker - 2013 - books.google.com
We are in the grip of global warming: sea levels are rising; glaciers are melting, Arctic sea
ice is thinning, meteorological events are becoming more extreme. But how do these …

Increasing trend of African dust, over 49 years, in the eastern Mediterranean

E Ganor, I Osetinsky, A Stupp… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Dust observations in Israel were carried out since 1958. During 1958–2006, 966 dust days
were observed. The dust days have been analyzed through their association with the …

Microbial composition of Saharan dust plumes deposited as red rain in Granada (southern Spain)

A Navarro, A Del Moral, B Weber, J Weber… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
During durst storms, also biological material is transported from arid areas such as the
Sahara Desert. In the present work, rain samples containing significant amounts of mineral …

Increase in dust storm related PM10 concentrations: A time series analysis of 2001–2015

H Krasnov, I Katra, M Friger - Environmental Pollution, 2016 - Elsevier
Over the last decades, changes in dust storms characteristics have been observed in
different parts of the world. The changing frequency of dust storms in the southeastern …

African dust deposition to Florida: Temporal and spatial variability and comparisons to models

JM Prospero, WM Landing… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Mineral dust plays an important role in ocean biogeochemistry as a source of Fe which in
some regions is a limiting micronutrient. Ocean models often use the output of dust transport …

Mineralogy and physicochemical features of Saharan dust wet deposited in the Iberian Peninsula during an extreme red rain event

C Rodriguez-Navarro, F di Lorenzo… - … Chemistry and Physics …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
The mineralogy and physicochemical features of Saharan dust particles help to identify
source areas and determine their biogeochemical, radiative and health effects, but their …