Global Distributions of Fractional Cover in Arid Lands: Early Analyses from NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation
Global Distributions of Fractional Cover in Arid Lands: Early Analyses from NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation
Philip Brodrick1, Francisco Ochoa2, Greg S Okin3, David R Thompson4, Kathleen Grant5, Eyal Ben Dor6, Dana Chadwick7, Roger Nelson Clark8, Bethany L Ehlmann9, Michael Fischella10, Paul A Ginoux11, Yue Huang10, Olga V. Kalashnikova4, Raymond F Kokaly12, Abigail Keebler9, Sarah Lundeen13, Ron L Miller14, Thomas Painter10, Carlos Pérez García-Pando15, Benjamin R Phillips16, Daniela Heller Pearlshtien17, Luis Guanter18, Longlei Li19, Vincent Obiso14, Winston Olson-Duvall7, Vincent J Realmuto20, Kevin Reath21, Gregg A Swayze12, Andrew K Thorpe4, Lauren Zastko22 and Robert O Green7, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, (3)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (6)Tel Aviv University, Geography Department, Porter School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv, Israel, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)USGS, Denver, United States, (9)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (11)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA, Princeton, United States, (12)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (13)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (15)NASA/GISS, New York, United States, (16)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (17)Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, (18)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (19)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (20)JPL, Pasadena, United States, (21)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (22)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States