Table 1.

Correlation Between the Climate Indices (ENSO, PDO, NAO, PNA, and AO) and Dust Storm Frequency in the Low‐Latitude (LL) and High‐Latitude (HL) Dust Regions in the Western United States Over All Months From 1988 to 2011^a

	ENSO	PDO	NAO	PNA	AO
LL dust	−0.44	−0.62	−0.41	−0.33	0.38
HL dust	−0.32	−0.73	−0.40	−0.56	0.33

^aSources of the data used here are provided in Table S3 in the supporting information.