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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 30.
Published in final edited form as: Atmos Chem Phys. 2021 May 27;21(10):8127–8167. doi: 10.5194/acp-21-8127-2021

Figure 4. Predictions of key aspects of the global dust cycle.

Figure 4.

Shown are inverse model results for (a) annual dust emission rate, (b) annual dust AOD, (c) column-integrated dust loading, (d) dust surface concentration, and (e) dust deposition flux. Panels (a) – (d) show results for PM20 dust, whereas panel (e) shows results for PM10 dust, for optimal comparison against the measurement compilation of PM10 dust deposition fluxes (Albani et al., 2014). Seasonally resolved predictions for each of these variables are shown in Figs. S2–S6. The symbols in (d) and (e) show the locations and values of the independent surface concentration and deposition flux measurements used for evaluation of the inverse model in Sect. 4.3 (also see Figs. 2c, d).