Are vegetation-related roughness changes the cause of the recent decrease in dust emission from the Sahel?

A critical evaluation of the ability of the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) thermal infrared red-green-blue rendering to identify dust events: Theoretical analysis

(2012) Helen Brindley et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

(2012) Rasmus Fensholt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The importance of the representation of deep convection for modeled dust-generating winds over West Africa during summer

(2011) John H. Marsham et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Analysis of teleconnections between AVHRR-based sea surface temperature and vegetation productivity in the semi-arid Sahel

(2011) Silvia Huber et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Mineral dust aerosols over the Sahara: Meteorological controls on emission and transport and implications for modeling

(2011) Peter Knippertz et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Sahel dust zone and synoptic background

(2010) Martina Klose et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Changes in near-surface wind speed in China: 1969-2005

(2010) Hua Guo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

African Dust over the Northern Tropical Atlantic: 1955–2008

(2010) Amato T. Evan et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Northern Hemisphere atmospheric stilling partly attributed to an increase in surface roughness

(2010) Robert Vautard et al.   Nature Geoscience

Trends in Saharan dust and tropical Atlantic climate during 1980–2006

(2008) Gregory R. Foltz et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Wind speed climatology and trends for Australia, 1975–2006: Capturing the stilling phenomenon and comparison with near-surface reanalysis output

(2008) Tim R. McVicar et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS