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    Orbital Observations of Dust Lofted by Daytime Convective Turbulence

    Over the past several decades, orbital observations of lofted dust have revealed the importance of mineral aerosols as a climate forcing mechanism on both Earth and Mars. Increasingly detailed and diverse data...

    Lori Fenton, Dennis Reiss, Mark Lemmon, Béatrice Marticorena in Space Science Reviews (2016)

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    Modeling Flow Patterns in a Small Vegetated Area in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert using QUIC (Quick Urban & Industrial Complex)

    Sandstorms are frequent in the northern Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico, an area characterized by open areas lacking vegetation, individual mesquite bushes, and mesquite coppice dunes. Field measurements of sa...

    George E. Bowker, Dale A. Gillette, Gilles Bergametti in Environmental Fluid Mechanics (2006)

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    Observations and Model Studies of Some Radiative Effects of Mineral Dust

    Frédéric Pradelle, Guy Cautenet in Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application… (2001)

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    An Investigation of the Dynamical and Physico-Chemical Features of Desert Aerosol over West Africa and Eastern Atlantic

    The possible strong climatic influence of mineral aerosol (almost 1 gigaton of desert dust annually mobilized by wind erosion from the arid or semi-arid areas of Northern Africa is transported towards Mediterr...

    Guy Cautenet, Frédéric Pradelle in Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application… (2000)