IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcom/v9y2018i1d10.1038_s41467-017-02620-y.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Global and regional importance of the direct dust-climate feedback

Author

Listed:
  • Jasper F. Kok

    (University of California)

  • Daniel S. Ward

    (Princeton University)

  • Natalie M. Mahowald

    (Cornell University)

  • Amato T. Evan

    (University of California)

Abstract

Feedbacks between the global dust cycle and the climate system might have amplified past climate changes. Yet, it remains unclear what role the dust–climate feedback will play in future anthropogenic climate change. Here, we estimate the direct dust–climate feedback, arising from changes in the dust direct radiative effect (DRE), using a simple theoretical framework that combines constraints on the dust DRE with a series of climate model results. We find that the direct dust–climate feedback is likely in the range of −0.04 to +0.02 Wm −2 K−1, such that it could account for a substantial fraction of the total aerosol feedbacks in the climate system. On a regional scale, the direct dust–climate feedback is enhanced by approximately an order of magnitude close to major source regions. This suggests that it could play an important role in shaping the future climates of Northern Africa, the Sahel, the Mediterranean region, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

Suggested Citation

  • Jasper F. Kok & Daniel S. Ward & Natalie M. Mahowald & Amato T. Evan, 2018. "Global and regional importance of the direct dust-climate feedback," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 9(1), pages 1-11, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:9:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-017-02620-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02620-y
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02620-y
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/s41467-017-02620-y?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Blake Stubbins & Andrew L. Leier & David L. Barbeau & Alex Pullen & Jordan T. Abell & Junsheng Nie & Marcelo A. Zárate & Mary Kate Fidler, 2023. "Global climate forcing on late Miocene establishment of the Pampean aeolian system in South America," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-10, December.
    2. Ali Darvishi Boloorani & Mohammad Saeed Najafi & Saham Mirzaie, 2021. "Role of land surface parameter change in dust emission and impacts of dust on climate in Southwest Asia," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 109(1), pages 111-132, October.
    3. Liao, Kaihua & Lv, Ligang & Lai, Xiaoming & Zhu, Qing, 2021. "Toward a framework for the multimodel ensemble prediction of soil nitrogen losses," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 456(C).
    4. Prasad, Abhnil Amtesh & Nishant, Nidhi & Kay, Merlinde, 2022. "Dust cycle and soiling issues affecting solar energy reductions in Australia using multiple datasets," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 310(C).
    5. Alex Pullen & David L. Barbeau & Andrew L. Leier & Jordan T. Abell & Madison Ward & Austin Bruner & Mary Kate Fidler, 2022. "A westerly wind dominated Puna Plateau during deposition of upper Pleistocene loessic sediments in the subtropical Andes, South America," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-8, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:9:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-017-02620-y. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.