Dust cycle: An emerging core theme in Earth system science

Aeolian Research - Tập 2 Số 4 - Trang 181-204 - 2011
Yaping Shao1, Gordon K. Smyth2, Adrian Chappell3, Jianping Huang4, Zhaohui Lin5, Grant H. McTainsh6, Masao Mikami7, Taichu Y. Tanaka7, Xulong Wang8, Soon‐Chang Yoon9
1Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2School of Earth and Environment, The University of Western Australia, WA 6009, Australia
3Division of Land and Water, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
4College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
5Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
6Atmospheric Environment Research Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
7Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
8Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, X’ian 710075, China
9School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

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