Decreasing Dust Over the Middle East Partly Caused by Irrigation Expansion
Abstract The importance of the effects of anthropogenic activities on modulating the global dust cycle has been increasingly recognized. Over the Middle East, we find in observations that there has been a significant decrease in dust optical depth from 2007 to 2019 during which global irrigated area...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2022-01-01
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| Series: | Earth's Future |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002252 |