The relationship between anthropogenic dust and population over global  semi-arid regions

Guan, Xiaodan; Huang, Jianping; Zhang, Yanting; Xie, Yongkun; Liu, Jingjing

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5159-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5159-2016

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Anthropogenic dust and its climate impact

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5159-2016

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Research article

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25 Apr 2016

Research article |

| 25 Apr 2016

The relationship between anthropogenic dust and population over global semi-arid regions

Xiaodan Guan, Jianping Huang, Yanting Zhang, Yongkun Xie, and Jingjing Liu

Data sets

Gridded Population of the World dataset, version 3 GPWv3 http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/gpw-v3

Short summary

An obvious peak in the total anthropogenic dust column, with much higher magnitude than those of wet regions, was observed in semi-arid regions. The anthropogenic dust column burden of semi-arid takes a positively correlated with the population and population change, indicating the production of anthropogenic dust in semi-arid regions is partly induced by human activities.