The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth. Yet the timing of its inception and its response
to climatic forcing is debated, leading to uncertainty over the causes and consequences of …

The diversity of microbes and their transmission between ocean and atmosphere are poorly
understood despite the implications for microbial global dispersion and biogeochemical …

The Saharan Air Layer is a mass of hot, dry air laden with dust that forms over the Sahara
and moves towards the Atlantic Ocean. This air mass contains soil dust particles emitted by …

Recent studies have suggested that global climate models tend to underestimate dust
particle size in particular, the very coarse mode, leading to an underestimated direct …

Background Epidemiological studies have related desert dust events to increased
respiratory morbidity and mortality. Although the Sahara is the largest source of desert dust …

Systematic measurements of dust concentration profiles at a continental scale were recently
made possible by the development of synergistic retrieval algorithms using combined lidar …

A unique 4-week ship cruise from Guadeloupe to Cabo Verde in April–May 2013 is used for
an in-depth comparison of dust profiles observed with a polarization/Raman lidar aboard the …

The direct radiative effect (DRE) during 20 intense and widespread dust outbreaks, which
affected the broader Mediterranean basin over the period March 2000–February 2013, has …

Cluster analyses, potential source contribution function (PSCF) and concentration-weight
trajectory (CWT) were used to identify the main transport pathways and potential source …

Long-range transport of African dust plays an important role in understanding dust-climate
relationships including dust source areas, dust pathways and associated atmospheric …