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. 2019 Jan 2;5(1):eaav1887. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aav1887

Fig. 1. Modern dust over North Africa and core sites discussed in the text.

Fig. 1

Map of mean annual (2000–2017) dust aerosol optical depth (AOD) over the North African continent, the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Gulf of Aden (off East Africa). Dust AOD data are from the 555-nm nonspherical AOD retrieval averaged between 2000 and 2017 from the Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (source: Giovanni, NASA EarthData). Cores discussed in the manuscript are plotted: sites MD03-2705 (this study) and ODP659 (3) in the northeast Atlantic, site ODP967 in the eastern Mediterranean Sea (28), and core RC09-166 in the Gulf of Aden (17). MD03-2705 and ODP659 are located under the present-day dust plumes transporting Saharan dust across the Atlantic Ocean.