Study attributes shift of decadal trend in Middle East dust activities to North Tropical Atlantic variability
The C and A denote cyclonic low-pressure and anticyclonic high-pressure circulation anomalies, respectively, induced by warmer NTA. MOD13A1 monthly mean enhanced vegetation index (EVI, shaded from brown to green) and North Tropical Atlantic SST anomaly (shaded from blue to red) in 2018. Credit: Science China Press
A research group led by Associate Professor Jing Li from the School of Physics at Peking University published an…