The contribution of the world’s main source regions to the global cycle of desert dust

Jasper F Kok1, Adeyemi A Adebiyi2, Samuel Albani3, Yves Balkanski4, Ramiro Checa-Garcia5, Peter Richard Colarco6, Carlos Perez Garcia-Pando7, Douglas Hamilton8, Yue Huang9, Aki Ito10, Longlei Li11, Natalie M Mahowald12, Ron L Miller13, Martina Klose7, Vincenzo Obiso7, Adriana Rocha Lima14, Chloe Whicker9, Jessica S Wan3 and Chun Zhao15, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (3)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)LSCE, CEA CNRS UVSQ, 91191, Gif sur Yvette, France, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (5)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (6)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, (8)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (9)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (11)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (12)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (13)NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States, (14)Grand Junction, CO, United States, (15)PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States