High-latitude dust over the North Atlantic: inputs from Icelandic proglacial dust storms

Mineral aerosols play an important role in the atmosphere-ocean climate system. Research has focused almost exclusively on sources in low-latitude arid regions, but here we show that there are substantial sources in cold, higher latitudes. A 6-year record of measurements made on Heimaey, an island s...

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Main Authors: Joseph M. Prospero, Joanna Bullard, Richard Hodgkins
Format: Default Article
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/11211
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