Articles | Volume 16, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-4995-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-4995-2024
Data description paper
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30 Oct 2024
Data description paper |  | 30 Oct 2024

Large synthesis of in situ field measurements of the size distribution of mineral dust aerosols across their life cycles

Paola Formenti and Claudia Di Biagio

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Particles from deserts and semi-vegetated areas (mineral dust) are important for Earth's climate and human health, notably depending on their size. In this paper we collect and make a synthesis of a body of these observations since 1972 in order to provide researchers modeling Earth's climate and developing satellite observations from space with a simple way of confronting their results and understanding their validity.
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