Abstract
The impact of dust aerosols on the climate and environment of Earth and Mars is complex and forms a major area of research. A difficulty arises in estimating the contribution of small-scale dust devils to the total dust aerosol. This difficulty is due to uncertainties in the amount of dust lifted by individual dust devils, the frequency of dust devil occurrence, and the lack of statistical generality of individual experiments and observations. In this paper, we review results of observational, laboratory, and modeling studies and provide an overview of dust devil dust transport on various spatio-temporal scales as obtained with the different research approaches. Methods used for the investigation of dust devils on Earth and Mars vary. For example, while the use of imagery for the investigation of dust devil occurrence frequency is common practice for Mars, this is less so the case for Earth. Modeling approaches for Earth and Mars are similar in that they are based on the same underlying theory, but they are applied in different ways. Insights into the benefits and limitations of each approach suggest potential future research focuses, which can further reduce the uncertainty associated with dust devil dust entrainment. The potential impacts of dust devils on the climates of Earth and Mars are discussed on the basis of the presented research results.
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We wish to thank Luca Montabone, one anonymous reviewer, and two editors for their careful review and valuable comments, and Bruce Cantor for his permission to reuse Fig. 4 of Cantor et al. (2006) in this paper. Bradley Jemmett-Smith and Peter Knippertz would like to acknowledge funding from the European Research Council Grant 257543 “Desert Storms”. Ralph Lorenz acknowledges the support of NASA Mars Fundamental Research Program grant NNX12AI04G. Not least, we are grateful to the International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, Switzerland, and to the conveners for organizing the workshop “Dust Devils on Mars and Earth” (www.issibern.ch/workshops/dustdevils/).
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Klose, M., Jemmett-Smith, B.C., Kahanpää, H. et al. Dust Devil Sediment Transport: From Lab to Field to Global Impact. Space Sci Rev 203, 377–426 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-016-0261-4
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