A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system

A Adebiyi, JF Kok, BJ Murray, CL Ryder, JBW Stuut… - Aeolian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Mineral dust particles suspended in the atmosphere span more than three orders of
magnitude in diameter, from< 0.1 µm to more than 100 µm. This wide size range makes dust …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of the world's main dust source regions to the global cycle of desert dust

JF Kok, AA Adebiyi, S Albani… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Even though desert dust is the most abundant aerosol by mass in Earth's atmosphere, the
relative contributions of the world's major source regions to the global dust cycle remain …

Dust in the critical zone: north American case studies

J Brahney, RC Heindel, TE Gill, G Carling… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The dust cycle facilitates the exchange of particles among Earth's major systems, enabling
dust to traverse ecosystems, cross geographic boundaries, and even move uphill against …

Improved representation of the global dust cycle using observational constraints on dust properties and abundance

JF Kok, AA Adebiyi, S Albani… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Even though desert dust is the most abundant aerosol by mass in Earth's atmosphere,
atmospheric models struggle to accurately represent its spatial and temporal distribution …

Climate models and remote sensing retrievals neglect substantial desert dust asphericity

Y Huang, JF Kok, K Kandler, H Lindqvist… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate models and remote sensing retrievals generally assume that dust aerosols are
spherical or spheroidal. However, measurements show that dust aerosols deviate …

Linking the different diameter types of aspherical desert dust indicates that models underestimate coarse dust emission

Y Huang, AA Adebiyi, P Formenti… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Measurements of dust aerosol size usually obtain the optical or projected area‐equivalent
diameters, whereas model calculations of dust impacts use the geometric or aerodynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Single-scattering properties of ellipsoidal dust aerosols constrained by measured dust shape distributions

Y Huang, JF Kok, M Saito… - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Most global aerosol models approximate dust as spherical particles, whereas most remote
sensing retrieval algorithms approximate dust as spheroidal particles with a shape …

Improved parameterization for the size distribution of emitted dust aerosols reduces model underestimation of super coarse dust

J Meng, Y Huang, DM Leung, L Li… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aircraft measurement campaigns have revealed that super coarse dust (diameter> 10 μm)
surprisingly accounts for approximately a quarter of aerosols by mass in the atmosphere …

Assessing performance of a “nature‐based” foredune restoration project, Oceano Dunes, California, USA

IJ Walker, Z Hilgendorf, JA Gillies… - Earth Surface …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Oceano Dunes near Pismo Beach, California is part of a large transgressive
dune system that extends up to 5 km inland and hosts a state park that has been managed …

Low dust generation potential from active sand grains by wind abrasion

N Swet, JF Kok, Y Huang, H Yizhaq… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Wind‐driven dust emission has a major impact on many environmental and socioeconomic
issues such as climate change, soil loss, biogeochemical cycles, and air pollution. It is …