African Droughts and Dust Transport to the Caribbean: Climate Change Implications

By J. Prospero, P. Lamb. Science, 2003

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Global observations of aerosol‐cloud‐precipitation‐climate interactions (2014, background): “Besides biomass burning, increased desert dust loading during El Niño detected over Barbados has been linked to droughts in West Africa [Prospero and Lamb, 2003].”
Atmospheric Movement of Microorganisms in Clouds of Desert Dust and Implications for Human Health (2007, background): “While it is believed that the Sahara and Sahel regions of North Africa have been and are the dominant sources of dust in the atmosphere (50 to 75% of the current estimate), there has been increased Asian dust activity over the last 20 years that has been attributed to climate change and desertificat”
Observations of the impact of a major Saharan dust storm on the atmospheric radiation balance (2006, background): “The dust is frequently deposited into the Atlantic Ocean, where it provides an important source of nutrients [Mahowald et al., 2005], and can be carried as far as the West Indies [Prospero and Lamb, 2003].”
Ecological mechanisms linking protected areas to surrounding lands. (2007, background): “For example, climate in the Caribbean is heavily influenced by regional factors and is weakly linked to Saharan Africa via input of wind-borne loess (Prospero and Lamb 2003).”
The MERRA-2 Aerosol Reanalysis, 1980 Onward. Part II: Evaluation and Case Studies. (2017, methodology): “Much of this dust gets transported to the west across the Atlantic Ocean, reaching the Caribbean (Prospero and Nees 1986; Prospero and Lamb 2003; Chiapello et al. 2005), the southern United States, and South America at times (Prospero et al. 2010; Yu et al. 2013).”
Aerosols and surface UV products from Ozone Monitoring Instrument observations: An overview (2007, background): “A connection between high desert dust aerosol concentrations and perturbations to the hydrological cycle has been suggested [Prospero and Lamb, 2003] on the basis of longterm record of ground-based observations and TOMS Aerosol Index data.”
A GCM study of the response of the atmospheric water cycle of West Africa and the Atlantic to Saharan dust radiative forcing (2009, background): “Saharan dust might impact the climate and the water cycle of the entire West Africa, tropical Atlantic and the Caribbean (WAAC) region (Prospero and Lamb, 2003).”
Atmosphere: A Source of Pathogenic or Beneficial Microbes? (2012, background): “More specifically, the increase of desertification during the last decade has resulted in a concomitant increase of atmospheric particulates, whereas a connection between El Nino weather events and increased flux of Saharan dust across the Atlantic has also been observed [32,50,56].”
Atmospheric iron deposition: global distribution, variability, and human perturbations. (2009, background): “…shown to be good (Mahowald et al. 2003), which suggests that large regions of the oceans will Time series of dust at Barbados (Prospero & Nees 1986, Prospero & Lamb 2003) (red line) and the negative of the Sahel precipitation anomaly (Chen et al. 2002) (blue line), both normalized by removing the…”
Tropospheric Ozone Determined from Aura OMI and MLS: Evaluation of Measurements and Comparison with the Global Modeling Initiative's Chemical Transport Model (2006, background): “…band centered over northern Africa in Figure 7a (bottom) is a persistent feature of this region from June though October, and coincides in both pattern and seasonality with mineral dust from deserts in northern Africa (Sahara) and Saudi Arabia [e.g., Torres et al., 2002; Prospero and Lamb, 2003].”
Feedback upon dust emission by dust radiative forcing through the planetary boundary layer (2004, background): “Within the twentieth century, rainfall records suggest that production of Sahel dust varied by a factor of 2 [Prospero and Lamb, 2003].”