Top papers (from our first meeting):
Shao, Y et al., 2011 Dust cycle: An emerging core theme in Earth system science, Aeolian
Research
Gregory S. Okin et al., 2011, Dust: Small-scale processes with global consequences, Eos,
Transactions American Geophysical Union (Good starting paper)
Ginoux, Paul, J M Prospero, T E Gill, C Hsu, and Ming Zhao, August 2012: Global scale attribution
of anthropogenic and natural dust sources and their emission rates based on MODIS Deep Blue
aerosol products. Reviews of Geophysics, 50, RG3005, DOI:10.1029/2012RG000388.
Peter Knippertz, Martin C. Todd 2012 Mineral dust aerosols over the Sahara: Meteorological
controls on emission and transport and implications for modeling, Reviews of Geophysics.
Maher et al., 2010 Global connections between aeolian dust, climate and ocean
biogeochemistry at the present day and at the last glacial maximum, Earth-Science Reviews.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.12.001
Huneeus, N., et al., 2011, Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I, Atmos.
Chem. Phys., 11, 7781-7816, 2011
www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/7781/2011/
Prospero, J.M., P. Ginoux, O. Torres, S. Nicholson, and T. Gill, Environmental Characterization of
Global Sources of Atmospheric Soil Dust Identified with the NIMBUS7 Total Ozone Mapping
Spectrometer (TOMS) Absorbing Aerosol Product, Rev. Geophys., 40, 1, 1002,
doi:10.1029/2000RG000095, 2002.
Jeffrey S. Reid et al., 2003, Analysis of measurements of Saharan dust by airborne and groundbased remote sensing methods during the Puerto Rico Dust Experiment (PRIDE) JOURNAL OF
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 108, NO. D19, 8586, doi:10.1029/2002JD002493
Gustiness the driver of glacial dustiness, McGee et al., 2010, QSR.
African Droughts and Dust Transport to the Caribbean: Climate Change Implications, Joseph M.
Prospero and Peter J. Lamb, Science,
Amato T. Evan The Role of Aerosols in the Evolution of Tropical North Atlantic Ocean
Temperature Anomalies Science 8 May 2009: Vol. 324 no. 5928 pp. 778-781 DOI:
10.1126/science.1167404
Contrasting compositions of Saharan dust in the eastern Atlantic Ocean during the
last deglaciation and African Humid Period Jennifer M. Cole et al., EPSL, 2009
Constraining the magnitude of the global dust cycle by minimizing the difference between a
model and observations JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 111, D06207,
doi:10.1029/2005JD005791, 2006
Ravi, S., et al. (2011), Aeolian processes and the biosphere, Rev. Geophys., 49 , RG3001,
doi:10.1029/2010RG000328
Recommended by someone outside of RSMAS group:
Engelstädter, S., Kohfeld, K. E., Tegen, I., & Harrison, S. P. (2003). Controls of dust emissions by
vegetation and topographic depressions: An evaluation using dust storm frequency data.
Geophysical Research Letters Geophysical Research Letters, 30(6), 1294.
doi:10.1029/2002GL016471
Recommended by multiple people at RSMAS:
-Nakai et al-1993- Provenance of dust in the Pacific Ocean (Times Cited 162)
-Grousset et al-1998- Saharan wind regimes traced by the Sr-Nd isotopic composition of
subtropical Atlantic sediments (Times Cited 101)
-Biscaye et al- 1997- Asian provenance of glacial dust in the Greenland Ice Sheet GISP2 ice core
(Time Cited 285)
-Yang et al-2009- Isotopic evidence for provenance of East Asian Dust ( Time Cited 17)
African Droughts and Dust Transport to the Caribbean: Climate Change Implications, Joseph M.
Prospero and Peter J. Lamb, Science,
Gustiness the driver of glacial dustiness, McGee et al., 2010, QSR.
Muhs, D.R., J. Budahn, J.M. Prospero, and S.N. Carey, Rare earth evidence of Saharan dust
inputs to soils of western Atlantic islands: The Bahamas and the Florida Keys, J. Geophys. Res.,
112, F02009
John H. Marsham The importance of the representation of deep convection for modeled dustgenerating winds over West Africa during summer Geophysical Research Letters Volume 38,
Issue 16, August 2011
Global disparity in the resilience of coral reefs George Roff and Peter J. Mumby, Trends in
Ecology and Evolution, 2012
Other papers recommended:
1. Biology
Prospero, J.M., E. Blades, G. Mathison, R. Naidu, Interhemispheric transport of viable fungi and bacteria
from Africa to the Caribbean with soil dust. Aerobiologia,
2. Paleodust
Southern Ocean dust–climate coupling over the past four million years Alfredo Martı´nez-Garcia, Nature,
2011
Stepwise Holocene aridification in NE Africa deduced from dust-borne radiogenic isotope records
S.J.A. Jung, 2004
Coherent high- and low-latitude control of the northwest African hydrological balance RIK TJALLINGII1
Nature Geoscience, 2008.
Comparing modeled and observed changes in mineral dust transport and deposition to Antarctica
between the Last Glacial Maximum and current climates
Samuel Albani, Clim. Dyn, 2011
3. Geochemistry
Variations in trace element (including rare earth element) concentrations with grain sizes in loess and
their implications for tracing the provenance of eolian deposits
Jin-Liang Feng 2011 Quat. International
Isotopic tracing (Sr, Nd, U and Hf) of continental and marine aerosols in an 18th century section of the
Dye-3 ice core (Greenland)
M. Lupker EPSL, 2010
Geochemical and magnetic characteristics of fine-grained surface sediments in potential dust source
areas: Implications for tracing the provenance of aeolian deposits and associated palaeoclimatic change
in East Asia Xunming Wang, Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 2012
Muhs, D.R., J. Budahn, J.M. Prospero, and S.N. Carey, Rare earth evidence of Saharan dust inputs to soils
of western Atlantic islands: The Bahamas and the Florida Keys, J. Geophys. Res., 112, F02009
4. Climate/Physics of Dust
Density currents as a desert dust mobilization mechanism Solomos et al, Atmos. Chem, Phys. 2012
Saharan dust storms and indirect aerosol effects on clouds:
CRYSTAL-FACE results, Kenneth Sassen et al., GRL, 2003
Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core F. Lambert et al.,
Nature, 2008
Global connections between aeolian dust, climate and ocean biogeochemistry at the
present day and at the last glacial maximum B.A. Maher, Earth-Science Reviews, 2010.
Unraveling the role of Aerosols in Climate change Penner AUGUST 1, 2001 / ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
& TECHNOLOGY , 333 A
Dust and Biological Aerosols from the Sahara and Asia Influence Precipitation in the Western U.S.
Jessie M. Creamean, sciencexpress, 2013.
5. Modeling
Modeling of mineral dust in the atmosphere' Sources, transport, and optical thickness, Tegen, JGR, 1994.
Comparing two years of Saharan dust source activation obtained by regional modeling and satellite
observations, Tegen, 2013, Atmos. Clim. Physics.
The role of airborne mineral dusts in human disease Suzette A. Morman, Aeolian Research,
2013.
Prospero, J.M., E. Blades, Naidu, G. Mathison, H. Thani and M.C. Lavoie (2008), Relationship between
African dust carried in the Atlantic Trade Winds and surges in Pediatric Asthma attendances in the
Caribbean, Intl. J. Biometeorol., 52(8),