出版社：Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
摘要：Windblown dust deflated from arid-semiarid areas and aeolian dust deposits are standing in the focal point of environmental scientifi c studies.Huge amount – billions of tons – of mineral dust is emitted annually from the major source areas.Rapidly growing body of scientifi c publications recognized and confi rmed that mineral dust has considerable impacts on numerous atmospheric, climatic and biogeochemical processes, and it plays an important role in the modifi cation of global energy and carbon budgets.Atmospheric dust has also an eff ect on human health, agriculture, traffi c and industrial production.Mineral dust related investigations are regarded as truly interdisciplinary studies.The editors, Peter Knippertz and Jan-Berend W.Stuut, well-known experts from various perspectives of dust storms and mineral dust and the 60 contributing authors give a comprehensive overview of the full range of mineral dust research.
