Windblown dust emission is a key surface process on Earth with important implications for the land-atmosphere-ocean-biosphere system. Yet the controls governing the dynamics of dust emission and soil erosion from susceptible surfaces are complex and remain poorly understood. This session focuses on new work enhancing our understanding of dust generation and emission from a range of natural and human-impacted landscapes including deserts, agricultural land, ephemeral rivers and lakebeds, and disturbed surfaces. We welcome contributions from field studies, laboratory experiments, remote sensing, and modelling that help constrain dust emission potential and processes, and their controls across multiple scales. This includes research exploring emission flux dynamics, surface properties, sediment supply and availability, and land-atmosphere feedbacks. The aim is to bring together people working on the mechanics of windblown dust emission and link observations with predictions whilst connecting across the aeolian, atmospheric, and earth surface process research communities.

• A - Atmospheric Sciences
• GC - Global Environmental Change
• H - Hydrology
• SY - Science and Society