Tire dust is a significant pollutant, especially as a source of zinc in the urban environment. This study characterizes the morphology and chemical composition of heavy metal particles embedded in tire dust and traffic-related materials (brake dust, yellow paint, and tire tread) as measured by a field emission scanning electron microscope equipped with an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (F...

Guangzhou is the central city in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), China, and is one of the most polluted cities in the world. To characterize the ambient falling dust pollution, two typical sampling sites: urban (Wushan) and suburban (University Town) areas in Guangzhou city were chosen for falling dust collection over 1 year at time intervals of 1 or 2 months. The flux of dry deposition was calcul...

East Asia is a major dust source in the world. Mineral dusts in the atmosphere and their interactions with clouds and precipitation have great impacts on regional climate in Asia, where there are large arid and semiarid regions. In this review paper, we summarize the typical transport paths of East Asian dust, which affect regional and global climates, and discuss numerous effects of dust aeros...

Introduction: Dust is the basic building block of all larger bodies formed in the Solar System: planets, their satellites, comets and asteroids. Some of these dust grains have survived 4.56 Gyr of processing, and occur as interplanetary dust particles (IDPs), GEMS (Glass with embedded sulphides) within IDPs and presolar grains in meteorites. Primitive meteorites can also be regarded as aggregat...

Introduction: Dust is the basic building block of all larger bodies formed in the Solar System: planets, their satellites, comets and asteroids. Some of these dust grains have survived 4.56 Gyr of processing, and occur as interplanetary dust particles (IDPs), GEMS (Glass with embedded sulphides) within IDPs and presolar grains in meteorites. Primitive meteorites can also be regarded as aggregat...