
Dust emissions
(a) Long-term average dust emission in MERRA-2 during 1980–2017. Dust sources identified by the (b) dust aerosol optical depth (DAOD)-based approach and (c) plume motion-based approach, based on 3-hourly MERRA-2 reanalysis during 1980–2017.
Yan Yu, et al., 2018
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