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The primary purpose of this paper is to present a dust climatology of the American Southwest, emphasizing data tabulation from weather sites in Arizona, discussing related issues of dust generating factors, and hypothesizing on the reasons for the variability of dust frequencies and interrelated forcing factors across the southwestern landscape. Much of this paper is from the analyses of Nickling and Brazel (1984); Brazel and Nickling (1986); Brazel, Nickling, and Lee (1986); Brazel and Nickling (1987); and Lougeay, Brazel, and Miller (1987). The major point of this review paper is to coalesce individual analyses into a synthesis of ideas, and to highlight the variability of dust generation and dust frequencies across differing environments of the American Southwest region of the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts.
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Brazel, A.J. (1989). Dust and Climate in the American Southwest. In: Leinen, M., Sarnthein, M. (eds) Paleoclimatology and Paleometeorology: Modern and Past Patterns of Global Atmospheric Transport. NATO ASI Series, vol 282. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0995-3_3
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