LEADER 05066nam 22006855 450 001 9910299555603321 005 20200705010254.0 010 $a94-017-8978-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-017-8978-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000228385 035 $a(EBL)1966769 035 $a(OCoLC)891387011 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001353917 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11750998 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001353917 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11322066 035 $a(PQKB)10529812 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1966769 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-017-8978-3 035 $a(PPN)181346877 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000228385 100 $a20140901d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMineral Dust $eA Key Player in the Earth System /$fedited by Peter Knippertz, Jan-Berend W. Stuut 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aDordrecht :$cSpringer Netherlands :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (526 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-017-8977-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aMineral Dust: A Key Player in The Earth System -- On Composition, Morphology and Size Distribution of Airborne Mineral Dust -- Identifying Sources of Aeolian Mineral Dust: Present and Past -- Processing / Ageing in the Atmosphere -- Dust Production Mechanisms -- Meteorological Aspects of Dust Storms -- Dust Observations and Climatology -- Dust Deposition -- Numerical Dust Models -- Operational Dust Prediction -- Radiative Effects of Dust -- Mineral Dust and Its Microphysical Interactions with Clouds -- Impact of Dust Radiative Forcing upon Climate -- Biogeochemical Impacts of Dust on the Global Carbon Cycle -- Dust and Human Health -- Loess Records -- Subaquatic Dust Deposits -- Ice Core Archives of Mineral Dust. 330 $aThis volume presents state-of-the-art research about mineral dust, including results from field campaigns, satellite observations, laboratory studies, computer modelling and theoretical studies. Dust research is a new, dynamic and fast-growing area of science and due to its multiple roles in the Earth system, dust has become a fascinating topic for many scientific disciplines. Aspects of dust research covered in this book reach from timescales of minutes (as with dust devils, cloud processes, and radiation) to millennia (as with loess formation and oceanic sediments), making dust both a player and recorder of environmental change. The book is structured in four main parts that explore characteristics of dust, the global dust cycle, impacts of dust on the Earth system, and dust as a climate indicator. The chapters in these parts provide a comprehensive, detailed overview of this highly interdisciplinary subject. The contributions presented here cover dust from source to sink and describe all the processes dust particles undergo while travelling through the atmosphere. Chapters explore how dust is lifted and transported, how it affects radiation, clouds, regional circulations, precipitation and chemical processes in the atmosphere, and how it deteriorates air quality. The book explores how dust is removed from the atmosphere by gravitational settling, turbulence or precipitation, how iron contained in dust fertilizes terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and abou t the role that dust plays in human health. We learn how dust is observed, simulated using computer models and forecast. The book also details the role of dust deposits for climate reconstructions. Scientific observations and results are presented, along with numerous illustrations. This work has an interdisciplinary appeal and will engage scholars in geology, geography, chemistry, meteorology and physics, amongst others with an interest in the Earth system and environmental change. 606 $aAtmospheric science 606 $aPhysical geography 606 $aGeology 606 $aAtmospheric Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G36000 606 $aEarth System Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G35000 606 $aPhysical Geography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J16000 606 $aGeology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G17002 615 0$aAtmospheric science. 615 0$aPhysical geography. 615 0$aGeology. 615 14$aAtmospheric Sciences. 615 24$aEarth System Sciences. 615 24$aPhysical Geography. 615 24$aGeology. 676 $a55 676 $a550 676 $a551 676 $a551.5 702 $aKnippertz$b Peter$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aStuut$b Jan-Berend W$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299555603321 996 $aMineral Dust$92530896 997 $aUNINA