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What controls the recent changes in African mineral dust aerosol across the Atlantic?
D. A. Ridley
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
C. L. Heald
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
J. M. Prospero
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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