A new data set of soil mineralogy for dust-cycle modeling

Journet, E., Balkanski, Y. and Harrison, S. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5687-1903 (2014) A new data set of soil mineralogy for dust-cycle modeling. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 14 (8). pp. 3801-3816. ISSN 1680-7316 doi: 10.5194/acp-14-3801-2014

Abstract/Summary

The mineralogy of airborne dust affects the impact of dust particles on direct and indirect radiative forcing, on atmospheric chemistry and on biogeochemical cycling. It is determined partly by the mineralogy of the dust-source regions and partly by size-dependent fractionation during erosion and transport. Here we present a data set that characterizes the clay and silt-sized fractions of global soil units in terms of the abundance of 12 minerals that are important for dust–climate interactions: quartz, feldspars, illite, smectite, kaolinite, chlorite, vermiculite, mica, calcite, gypsum, hematite and goethite. The basic mineralogical information is derived from the literature, and is then expanded following explicit rules, in order to characterize as many soil units as possible. We present three alternative realizations of the mineralogical maps, taking the uncertainties in the mineralogical data into account. We examine the implications of the new database for calculations of the single scattering albedo of airborne dust and thus for dust radiative forcing.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/40132
Identification Number/DOI	10.5194/acp-14-3801-2014
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Walker Institute Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary centres and themes > Soil Research Centre Interdisciplinary centres and themes > Centre for Past Climate Change
Publisher	Copernicus Publications
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