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 …

The electrostatic charge that is generated when two materials are contacted or rubbed and
then separated is a well-known physical process that has been studied for more than 2500 …

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 …

Convective cold pools and the breakdown of nocturnal low‐level jets (NLLJs) are key
meteorological drivers of dust emission over summertime West Africa, the world's largest …

West Africa is the world's largest source of airborne mineral dust, which affects weather,
climate, and biogeochemical processes. We use continental‐scale ten‐day simulations from …

Raikoke, a small, unmonitored volcano in the Kuril Islands, erupted in June 2019. We
integrate data from satellites (including Sentinel-2, TROPOMI, MODIS, Himawari-8), the …

The 2016–2017 shallow submarine eruption of Bogoslof volcano in Alaska injected plumes
of ash and seawater to maximum heights of~ 12 km. More than 4550 volcanic lightning …

Triboelectric charging is present in numerous technologies and everyday processes,
providing both problems and opportunities. Despite this, there is no generalised model for …

While the electrification of dust storms is known to substantially affect the lifting and transport
of dust particles, the electrical structure of dust storms and its underlying charge separation …

A vast, arid, and virtually uninhabited region covering eastern Mauritania and northern Mali
appears in satellite estimates of dust loading as the global maximum during boreal summer …