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 …

Our understanding of the global dust cycle is limited by a dearth of information about dust
sources, especially small‐scale features which could account for a large fraction of global …

A changing climate can lead to changes in the frequency, intensity or duration of an extreme
event, or result in an 3 unprecedented, previously unobserved, extreme. As well, a weather …

Although a remarkable reduction in the frequency of sand and dust storms (SDSs) in the
past several decades has been reported over northern China (NC), two unexpected mega …

abstract Statistical analysis of air mass back trajectories combined with long-term ambient
air pollution measurements are useful tools for source identification. Using these methods …

Emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and of reactive gases such as sulphur
dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons, which lead to the formation of …

The Asian monsoon (AM) played an important role in the dynastic history of China, yet it
remains unknown whether AM-mediated shifts in Chinese societies affect earth surface …

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 …

Billions of tons of desert dust move through the atmosphere each year. The primary source
regions, which include the Sahara and Sahel regions of North Africa and the Gobi and Takla …

From 2006 to 2007, the daily concentrations of major inorganic water-soluble constituents,
mineral aerosol, organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) in ambient PM 10 samples …