Time-series analysis of Earth’s major dust source regions reveals common traits in responses of wind erosion to climate anomalies. Lag crosscorrelations of monthly mean aerosol optical depth, precipitation, vegetation, and wind speed are examined from 1979–1993. The response to monthly climate anomalies can differ greatly from the response to seasonal mean climate. The signs, magnitudes, and la...

We investigate the influence of mineral dust on tropospheric chemistry in the present climate at the global scale. The analysis examines the effects of dust on photolysis and heterogeneous uptake, operating independently and together. In numerical experiments the size-resolved, time-varying mineral dust distribution predicted by the global Dust Entrainment And Deposition (DEAD) model perturbs t...

dust storm is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions. iran and particularly its west and south-west parts, periodically faces with the dust phenomenon and its problems. in this investigation two dust samples has been selected and studied that they has sustained over three days with visibility less than 1000m in west of iran. the first one occurred during 18 - 21 april ...

Bacterial abundance and community compositions have been examined in aeolian dust in order to clarify their possible impacts on public health and ecosystems. The influence of transcontinentally transported bacterial cells on microbial communities in the outdoor environments of downwind areas should be determined because the rapid influx of a large amount of bacterial cells can disturb indigenou...

Centennial-scale mineral dust peaks in last glacial Greenland ice cores match the timing of lowest Greenland temperatures, yet little is known of equivalent changes in dust-emitting regions, limiting our understanding of dust-climate interaction. Here, we present the most detailed and precise age model for European loess dust deposits to date, based on 125 accelerator mass spectrometry 14C ages...

We examine Lyman continuum extinction (LCE) in H II regions by comparing infrared fluxes of 49 H II regions in the Galaxy, M31, M33, and the LMC with estimated production rates of Lyman continuum photons. A typical fraction of Lyman continuum photons that contribute to hydrogen ionization in the H II regions of three spiral galaxies is . 50 %. The fraction may become smaller as the metallicity ...