The physics of wind-blown sand and dust

JF Kok, EJR Parteli, TI Michaels… - Reports on progress in …, 2012‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The transport of sand and dust by wind is a potent erosional force, creates sand dunes and
ripples, and loads the atmosphere with suspended dust aerosols. This paper presents an …

Transport of mineral dust and its impact on climate

K Schepanski - Geosciences, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Mineral dust plays a pivotal role in the Earth's system. Dust modulates the global energy
budget directly via its interactions with radiation and indirectly via its influence on cloud and …

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 …

Preferential dust sources: A geomorphological classification designed for use in global dust‐cycle models

JE Bullard, SP Harrison, MC Baddock… - Journal of …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
We present a simple theoretical land‐surface classification that can be used to determine
the location and temporal behavior of preferential sources of terrestrial dust emissions. The …

Trajectory analysis of Saudi Arabian dust storms

M Notaro, F Alkolibi, E Fadda… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Temporal and spatial characteristics of Saudi Arabian dust storms, with focus on associated
air parcel trajectories, are investigated using station and gridded weather observations and …

How reliable are CMIP5 models in simulating dust optical depth?

B Pu, P Ginoux - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018‏ - acp.copernicus.org
Dust aerosol plays an important role in the climate system by affecting the radiative and
energy balances. Biases in dust modeling may result in biases in simulating global energy …

The seasonal vertical distribution of the Saharan Air Layer and its modulation by the wind

C Tsamalis, A Chédin, J Pelon… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2013‏ - acp.copernicus.org
The Saharan Air Layer (SAL) influences large-scale environment from western Africa to
eastern tropical Americas, by carrying large amounts of dust aerosols. However, the vertical …

[PDF][PDF] Aerosols and their impact on radiation, clouds, precipitation, and severe weather events

Z Li, D Rosenfeld, J Fan - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of …, 2017‏ - drive.google.com
Aerosols (tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere) have been in the
forefront of environmental and climate change sciences as the primary atmospheric pollutant …

Contemporary glacigenic inputs to the dust cycle

JE Bullard - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
The importance of glacigenic dust in the Earth's system during glacial periods is widely
acknowledged. Under contemporary conditions, the world's largest dust sources are in low …

Reevaluating the role of the Saharan air layer in Atlantic tropical cyclogenesis and evolution

SA Braun - Monthly Weather Review, 2010‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
The existence of the Saharan air layer (SAL), a layer of warm, dry, dusty air frequently
present over the tropical Atlantic Ocean, has long been appreciated. The nature of its …