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

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 …

The Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) Version 3 (V3) aerosol retrieval algorithm is
described, which is based on the Version 2 (V2) algorithm with numerous updates …

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 …

Whether during past climate stages or into a progressively warming world, changes in
precipitation constitute a key component of climatic change. Quantitative proxies for palaeo …

This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

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 …

We use the Total Ozone Map** Spectrometer (TOMS) sensor on the Nimbus 7 satellite to
map the global distribution of major atmospheric dust sources with the goal of identifying …

Aerosol radiative forcing is a critical, though variable and uncertain, component of the global
climate. Yet climate models rely on sparse information of the aerosol optical properties. In …

This paper reviews the many developments in estimates of the direct and indirect global
annual mean radiative forcing due to present‐day concentrations of anthropogenic …