Mineral dust aerosols impact the energy budget of Earth through interactions with radiation,
clouds, atmospheric chemistry, the cryosphere and biogeochemistry. In this Review, we …

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 …

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 …

Coarse mineral dust (diameter,≥ 5 μm) is an important component of the Earth system that
affects clouds, ocean ecosystems, and climate. Despite their significance, climate models …

Airborne mineral dust particles can act as natural seeds for cirrus clouds in the upper
troposphere. However, the atmospheric abundance of dust is unconstrained in cirrus …

We present spectrally resolved optical and microphysical properties of western Canadian
wildfire smoke observed in a tropospheric layer from 5–6.5 km height and in a stratospheric …

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 …

Mineral dust is an important component of the climate system, interacting with radiation,
clouds, and biogeochemical systems and impacting atmospheric circulation, air quality …

We applied the recently introduced polarization lidar–photometer networking (POLIPHON)
technique for the first time to triple-wavelength polarization lidar measurements at 355, 532 …

Airborne observations over the Amazon Basin showed high aerosol particle concentrations
in the upper troposphere (UT) between 8 and 15 km altitude, with number densities …