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Anthropogenic Decline of African Dust: Insights from the Holocene Records and Beyond

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dc.creator Yuan, Tianle
dc.creator Yu, Hongbin
dc.creator Chin, Mian
dc.creator Remer, Lorraine A
dc.creator McGee, David
dc.creator Evan, Amato
dc.date 2021-10-27T19:56:45Z
dc.date 2021-10-27T19:56:45Z
dc.date 2020
dc.date 2021-09-17T14:04:44Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:06:21Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:06:21Z
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133806
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278766
dc.description African dust exhibits strong variability on a range of time scales. Here we show that the interhemispheric contrast in Atlantic SST (ICAS) drives African dust variability at decadal to millennial timescales, and the strong anthropogenic increase of the ICAS in the future will decrease African dust loading to a level never seen during the Holocene. We provide a physical framework to understand the relationship between the ICAS and African dust activity: positive ICAS anomalies push the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) northward and decrease surface wind speed over African dust source regions, which reduces dust emission and transport. It provides a unified framework for and is consistent with relationships in the literature. We find strong observational and proxy-record support for the ICAS-ITCZ-dust relationship during the past 160 and 17,000 years. Model-projected anthropogenic increase of the ICAS will reduce African dust by as much as 60%, which has broad consequences.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher American Geophysical Union (AGU)
dc.relation 10.1029/2020GL089711
dc.relation Geophysical Research Letters
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.source American Geophysical Union (AGU)
dc.title Anthropogenic Decline of African Dust: Insights from the Holocene Records and Beyond
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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