Smaller desert dust cooling effect estimated from analysis of dust size and abundance

Desert dust aerosols affect Earth's global energy balance through direct interactions with radiation, and through indirect interactions with clouds and ecosystems. But the magnitudes of these effects are so uncertain that it remains unclear whether atmospheric dust has a net warming or cooling...

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Main Authors: Kok, Jasper F., Ridley, David Andrew, Zhou, Qing, Miller, Ron L., Zhao, Chun, Heald, Colette L., Ward, Daniel S., Albani, Samuel, Haustein, Karsten
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature America, Inc 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125744