Mineral dust aerosol impacts on global climate and climate change

JF Kok, T Storelvmo, VA Karydis, AA Adebiyi… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Mineral dust aerosols impact the energy budget of Earth through interactions with radiation,
clouds, atmospheric chemistry, the cryosphere and biogeochemistry. In this Review, we …

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 …

The AERONET Version 3 aerosol retrieval algorithm, associated uncertainties and comparisons to Version 2

A Sinyuk, BN Holben, TF Eck, DM Giles… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - amt.copernicus.org
The Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) Version 3 (V3) aerosol retrieval algorithm is
described, which is based on the Version 2 (V2) algorithm with numerous updates …

Smaller desert dust cooling effect estimated from analysis of dust size and abundance

JF Kok, DA Ridley, Q Zhou, RL Miller, C Zhao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
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 …

Palaeoclimatic records of the loess/palaeosol sequences of the Chinese Loess Plateau

BA Maher - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Complex refractive indices and single-scattering albedo of global dust aerosols in the shortwave spectrum and relationship to size and iron content

C Di Biagio, P Formenti, Y Balkanski… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
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 …

The global distribution of mineral dust and its impacts on the climate system: A review

OA Choobari, P Zawar-Reza, A Sturman - Atmospheric Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Mineral dust aerosols, the tiny soil particles suspended in the atmosphere, have a key role in
the atmospheric radiation budget and hydrological cycle through their radiative and cloud …

[图书][B] Climate change 2001: the scientific basis

JT Houghton, Y Ding, DJ Griggs, M Noguer… - 2001 - academia.edu
This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …

Environmental characterization of global sources of atmospheric soil dust identified with the Nimbus 7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) absorbing aerosol …

JM Prospero, P Ginoux, O Torres… - Reviews of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We use the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) sensor on the Nimbus 7 satellite to
map the global distribution of major atmospheric dust sources with the goal of identifying …

Variability of absorption and optical properties of key aerosol types observed in worldwide locations

O Dubovik, B Holben, TF Eck… - Journal of the …, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
Aerosol radiative forcing is a critical, though variable and uncertain, component of the global
climate. Yet climate models rely on sparse information of the aerosol optical properties. In …