Table 2.

Relative Contributions (%) of Different Source Regions to Annual Mean Global, Near‐Arctic, and High‐Arctic Mineral Dust Loads

	Global	Near Arctic, >60°N	High Arctic, >80°N
Africa	61.8	31.6	30.8
Asia, S60	34.6	38.2	38.3
Australia	0.3	0.0	0.0
Europe, S60	0.1	0.4	0.5
North America, S60	1.0	2.6	2.7
South America	1.1	0.0	0.0
Eurasia, N60	0.4	10.6	12.8
Greenland	0.0	0.6	0.7
Iceland	0.1	2.0	1.4
North America, N60	0.6	14.0	12.8