Transport of mineral dust and its impact on climate

K Schepanski - Geosciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Mineral dust plays a pivotal role in the Earth's system. Dust modulates the global energy
budget directly via its interactions with radiation and indirectly via its influence on cloud and …

The great Atlantic Sargassum belt

M Wang, C Hu, BB Barnes, G Mitchum, B Lapointe… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Pelagic Sargassum is abundant in the Sargasso Sea, but a recurrent great Atlantic
Sargassum belt (GASB) has been observed in satellite imagery since 2011, often extending …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated observations of global surface winds, currents, and waves: requirements and challenges for the next decade

AB Villas Bôas, F Ardhuin, A Ayet… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ocean surface winds, currents, and waves play a crucial role in exchanges of momentum,
energy, heat, freshwater, gases, and other tracers between the ocean, atmosphere, and ice …

The PIRATA program: History, accomplishments, and future directions

B Bourlès, R Lumpkin, MJ McPhaden… - Bulletin of the …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Pilot Research Moored Array in the tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) was developed as a
multinational observation network to improve our knowledge and understanding of ocean …

Preferential dust sources: A geomorphological classification designed for use in global dust‐cycle models

JE Bullard, SP Harrison, MC Baddock… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We present a simple theoretical land‐surface classification that can be used to determine
the location and temporal behavior of preferential sources of terrestrial dust emissions. The …

The role of aerosols in the evolution of tropical North Atlantic Ocean temperature anomalies

AT Evan, DJ Vimont, AK Heidinger, JP Kossin… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Observations and models show that northern tropical Atlantic surface temperatures are
sensitive to regional changes in stratospheric volcanic and tropospheric mineral aerosols …

Climatic controls on the interannual to decadal variability in Saudi Arabian dust activity: Toward the development of a seasonal dust prediction model

Y Yu, M Notaro, Z Liu, F Wang, F Alkolibi… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The observed climatic controls on springtime and summertime Saudi Arabian dust activities
during 1975–2012 are analyzed, leading to development of a seasonal dust prediction …

A new satellite-based global climatology of dust aerosol optical depth

KK Voss, AT Evan - Journal of Applied Meteorology and …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
By mass, dust is the largest contributor to global aerosol burden, yet long-term observational
records of dust, particularly over the ocean, are limited. Here, two nearly global …

Multidecadal covariability of North Atlantic sea surface temperature, African dust, Sahel rainfall, and Atlantic hurricanes

C Wang, S Dong, AT Evan, GR Foltz… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Most studies of African dust and North Atlantic climate have been limited to the short time
period since the satellite era (1980 onward), precluding the examination of their relationship …

Overview of the chemistry-aerosol Mediterranean experiment/aerosol direct radiative forcing on the Mediterranean climate (ChArMEx/ADRIMED) summer 2013 …

M Mallet, F Dulac, P Formenti, P Nabat… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
The Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment (ChArMEx; http://charmex. lsce. ipsl. fr) is
a collaborative research program federating international activities to investigate …