The Global Transport of Dust
By Dale Griffin, Christina Kellogg, Virginia Garrison, Eugene Shinn
An intercontinental river of dust, microorganisms and toxic chemicals flows through the Earth's atmosphere
This Article From Issue
May-June 2002
Volume 90, Number 3
Page 228
DOI: 10.1511/2002.9.228
By some estimates as much as two billion metric tons of dust are lifted into the Earth's atmosphere every year. Most of this dust is stirred up by storms, the more dramatic of which are aptly named dust storms. But more than mere dirt is carried aloft.
Courtesy of the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE.
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