North Africa is the world's largest source of dust, a large part of which is transported across
the Atlantic to the Caribbean and beyond where it can impact radiation and clouds. Many …

Dust plays a key role in many Earth system processes and is ubiquitous in the Martian
atmosphere. Various intensive field campaigns, laboratory analyses, space-based remote …

Particulate nitrate (pNO 3−) has long been considered a permanent sink for NO x (NO and
NO2), removing a gaseous pollutant that is central to air quality and that influences the …

Coarse mineral dust (diameter,≥ 5 μm) is an important component of the Earth system that
affects clouds, ocean ecosystems, and climate. Despite their significance, climate models …

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 …

The optical properties of airborne mineral dust depend on its mineralogy, size distribution,
and shape, and they might vary between different source regions. To date, large differences …

Heterogeneous ice nucleation is an important mechanism for the glaciation of mixed phase
clouds and may also be relevant for cloud formation and dehydration at the cirrus cloud …

Mineral dust is an important component of the climate system, affecting the radiation
balance, cloud properties, biogeochemical cycles, regional circulation and precipitation, as …

Two comprehensive field campaigns were conducted in 2006 and 2008 in the framework of
the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment (SAMUM) project. The relationship between chemical …

Triple-wavelength lidar observations of the depolarization ratio and the backscatter
coefficient of marine aerosol as a function of relative humidity (RH) are presented with a 5 …