Dust cycle: An emerging core theme in Earth system science

Y Shao, KH Wyrwoll, A Chappell, J Huang, Z Lin… - Aeolian Research, 2011‏ - Elsevier
The dust cycle is an integral part of the Earth system. Each year, an estimated 2000 Mt dust
is emitted into the atmosphere, 75% of which is deposited to the land and 25% to the ocean …

Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

Past Interglacials Working Group of … - Reviews of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Interglacials, including the present (Holocene) period, are warm, low land ice extent (high
sea level), end‐members of glacial cycles. Based on a sea level definition, we identify …

The mid-Pleistocene climate transition

TD Herbert - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
The timing of ice ages over the past∼ 2,600 thousand years (kyr) follows pacing by cyclical
changes in three aspects of Earth's orbit that influence the solar energy received as a …

Southern Ocean dust–climate coupling over the past four million years

A Martínez-Garcia, A Rosell-Melé, SL Jaccard… - Nature, 2011‏ - nature.com
Dust has the potential to modify global climate by influencing the radiative balance of the
atmosphere and by supplying iron and other essential limiting micronutrients to the ocean …

Atmospheric iron deposition: global distribution, variability, and human perturbations

NM Mahowald, S Engelstaedter, C Luo… - Annual review of …, 2009‏ - annualreviews.org
Atmospheric inputs of iron to the open ocean are hypothesized to modulate ocean
biogeochemistry. This review presents an integration of available observations of …

Mineral dust aerosols over the Sahara: Meteorological controls on emission and transport and implications for modeling

P Knippertz, MC Todd - Reviews of Geophysics, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

Nature, 2012‏ - nature.com
Many palaeoclimate studies have quantified pre-anthropogenic climate change to calculate
climate sensitivity (equilibrium temperature change in response to radiative forcing change) …

The geologic records of dust in the Quaternary

DR Muhs - Aeolian Research, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Study of geologic records of dust composition, sources and deposition rates is important for
understanding the role of dust in the overall planetary radiation balance, fertilization of …

Middle Miocene climate cooling linked to intensification of eastern equatorial Pacific upwelling

A Holbourn, W Kuhnt, M Lyle, L Schneider… - …, 2014‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract During the Middle Miocene, Earth's climate transitioned from a relatively warm
phase (Miocene climatic optimum) to a colder mode with reestablishment of permanent ice …

Increased dust deposition in the Pacific Southern Ocean during glacial periods

F Lamy, R Gersonde, G Winckler, O Esper, A Jaeschke… - Science, 2014‏ - science.org
Dust deposition in the Southern Ocean constitutes a critical modulator of past global climate
variability, but how it has varied temporally and geographically is underdetermined. Here …