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NASA: North Africa Sheds Millions of Tons of Dust

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This post first appeared on NASA Earth Observatory and was written by Michael Carlowitcz The millions of tons of dust lofted out of North Africa each year are a visual reminder of how Earth’s systems are interconnected. Dust blowing out of the Sahara fertilizes the surface waters of the Atlantic and the soils of the Americas. It influences the development […]

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SnowBrains | June 8, 2021
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‘Godzilla’ – A Dust Plume to Remember

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC and data from the CALIPSO team. Story by Adam Voiland. Winds routinely drive clouds of Saharan dust out of West Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean in the summer. But the intensity and extent of a plume that departed Africa […]

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SnowBrains | July 10, 2020
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