Dust from both deserts and more vegetated areas contributes a major fraction of the atmospheric aerosol and has a variety of sources, compositions and impacts. The goal of this session is to bring together scientists from different disciplines working on the characterisation, emission, atmospheric transport, chemical transformation and impact of dust from desert, vegetated or agricultural areas. We invite and welcome contributions from the general areas (1) speciation and characterisation of the mineralogy, organic content and other constituents of dust sampled from source regions or directly from the atmosphere, (2) emission fluxes, transport and chemical transformation of dust in the atmosphere, and (3) cloud and climate impacts of atmospheric dust, including optical properties, CCN activation, and heterogeneous ice nucleation behaviors.
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