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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-15815-2023
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Research article
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22 Dec 2023
Research article |
| 22 Dec 2023
| 22 Dec 2023
Variability in sediment particle size, mineralogy, and Fe mode of occurrence across dust-source inland drainage basins: the case of the lower Drâa Valley, Morocco
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
Spanish Research Council, Institute of Environmental Assessment and water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Cristina González-Flórez
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Agnesh Panta
Institute of Applied Geosciences, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Jesús Yus-Díez
Spanish Research Council, Institute of Environmental Assessment and water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
now at: Centre for Atmospheric Research, University of Nova Gorica, Ajdovščina, Slovenia
Cristina Reche
Spanish Research Council, Institute of Environmental Assessment and water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Patricia Córdoba
Spanish Research Council, Institute of Environmental Assessment and water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Natalia Moreno
Spanish Research Council, Institute of Environmental Assessment and water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Andres Alastuey
Spanish Research Council, Institute of Environmental Assessment and water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Konrad Kandler
Institute of Applied Geosciences, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Martina Klose
Department Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-TRO), Karlsruhe, Germany
Clarissa Baldo
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
now at: Université Paris Cité and Univ. Paris Est Cretecil, CNRS, LISA, 75013 Paris, France
Roger N. Clark
PSI Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA
Zongbo Shi
School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Xavier Querol
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Spanish Research Council, Institute of Environmental Assessment and water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Carlos Pérez García-Pando
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain
Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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Short summary
The effect of dust emitted from desertic surfaces upon climate and ecosystems depends on size and mineralogy, but data from soil mineral atlases of desert soils are scarce. We performed particle-size distribution, mineralogy, and Fe speciation in southern Morocco. Results show coarser particles with high quartz proportion are near the elevated areas, while in depressed areas, sizes are finer, and proportions of clays and nano-Fe oxides are higher. This difference is important for dust modelling.
The effect of dust emitted from desertic surfaces upon climate and ecosystems depends on size...
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