About half of the world's population now lives in urban areas because of the opportunity for a
better quality of life. Many of these urban centers are expanding rapidly, leading to the …

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 …

Dust storms are recognized as having a very wide range of environmental impacts. Their
geomorphological interest lies in the amount of deflation and wind erosion they indicate and …

On April 15 and 19, 1998, two intense dust storms were generated over the Gobi desert by
springtime low‐pressure systems descending from the northwest. The windblown dust was …

This paper investigates the hypothesis that cloud and fog processes produce fine organic
particulate matter in the atmosphere. The evidence provided suggests that cloud and fog …

Using observations from the Cheeka Peak Observatory in northwestern Washington State
during March‐April, 1997, we show that Asian anthropogenic emissions significantly impact …

The atmosphere overlying the ocean is very sensitive—physically, chemically and
climatically—to air pollution. Given that clouds over the ocean are of great climatic …

Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) is a new remote sensing
instrument aboard the Earth Observing System (EOS)“Terra” satellite which exploits gas …

For Fe contained in aeolian dust to act as a micronutrient for oceanic phytoplankton, some
fraction of it must first be transformed (mobilized) into a form soluble in ocean water. Fe …

A yellow sand transport episode from the Asian continent to Japan and North America which
occurred in April 1998 is simulated. A new on‐line dust tracer model coupled with a regional …