Fig. 3: Contributions of drivers to dust anomalies during the historical period and their dependencies across fractional vegetation cover (FVC) and soil moisture (SoilM).
From: Vegetation greening drives long-term dust mitigation in Eastern Asia
a Spatial distribution of percent contributions of three factors (Wind, FVC, and SoilM); dominant factor per pixel is indicated. b Cumulative mean dust emissions (1982–2023) along the FVC gradient. Black and red dashed lines denote the FVC threshold (15%) and the corresponding cumulative fraction (96.19%), respectively. c Absolute percent contributions of the three factors in the Eastern Sources (Experiment 3). d The constraints of FVC and SoilM on wind-driven dust. The sizes of the spheres represent the dust anomalies induced by wind. The thick dashed lines represent the values of FVC and SoilM corresponding to a wind contribution of 95%. The thin dashed line represents the values of FVC and SoilM corresponding to the 95th percentile of pixel values of wind-driven dust emissions. e, f The dependence of the contributions of the three factors on FVC and SoilM. Shaded areas represent the standard deviation estimated via bootstrap resampling (500 iterations). Basemap in a from Natural Earth (https://www.naturalearthdata.com/).
