Abstract: Multiyear satellite observations are used to document a relationship between the large-scale variability in precipitation over the tropical Atlantic and aerosol traced to African sources. During boreal winter and spring ...

Abstract: r huge quantities of soil dust are carried by winds from Africa, across the Atlantic, and to the Caribbean. No other ocean region is so extensively and persistently impacted by such high concentrations of dust, a region ...

Abstract: The intense and prolonged heating of air passing over the Sahara during the summer and early fall months forms a deep mixed layer which extends up to 15?20,000 ft during July, the warmest month. The dust-laden heated air ...

Abstract: ccurate modeling of the impact of aerosols on climate requires a detailed understanding of the vertical distribution of aerosols. The Cloud?Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) provides ...

Abstract: louds over the ocean, particularly throughout the tropics, are poorly understood and drive much of the uncertainty in model-based projections of climate change. In early 2010, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and ...