Fig. 1: Spatial distribution of dust mass loading and land cover.
From: Historical footprints and future projections of global dust burden from bias-corrected CMIP6 models
The climatology of annual mean dust mass loading (DML; g m–2) based on (a) MERRA2 for 2000–2021 and (b) MODIS for 2003–2021. (c) Global land cover types retrieved by MODIS data. Black boxes indicate the boundaries of the nine selected study regions: (1) North Africa (18°W–38°E, 0°N–40°N), (2) Mid-Atlantic (18°W–60°W, 0°N–40°N), (3) Middle East (38°E–68°E, 10°N–50°N), (4) East Asia (68°E–120°E, 35°N–50°N), (5) South Asia (68°E–90°E, 10°N–35°N), (6) Australia (112°E–155°E, 10°S–40°S), (7) southern Africa (10°E–40°E, 10°S–35°S), (8) South America (50°W–75°W, 15°S–55°S), and (9) North America (75°W–125°W, 25°N–55°N).
