PANGAEA_926522 Atmospheric river dust scores for 2001 to 2018 Voss, Kara K; Evan, Amato T; Prather, Kimbery A; Ralph, F Martin Atmospheric river dust scores for 2001 to 2018 2021-01-12 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.926522 Investigator Kara K Voss kvoss@ucsd.edu Earth Science DATE/TIME Dust score Pixels within atmospheric rivers feature geoscientificInformation aerosol atmospheric river dust dust score Defined by the Rutz AR catalogue 2001-01-01 2018-12-31 Complete unrestricted CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 13140 data points text/tab-separated-values Voss, Kara K; Evan, Amato T; Prather, Kimbery A; Ralph, F Martin (2020): Dusty Atmospheric Rivers: Characteristics and Origins. Journal of Climate, 33(22), 9749-9762, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0059.1

The AR "dust score" characterizes the dustiness of the environment associated with ARs that made landfall along the west coast of the U.S. between 2001 and 2018 using satellite-based observations. The AR dust score is calculated from the average of dust aerosol optical depth within the horizontal boundaries of the landfalling AR, as defined by the Rutz AR catalogue. This dataset has been used to investigate how often dust is present in the surroundings of ARs along the U.S. west coast, as dust can impact cloud microphysics and precipitation from these storms. Further information describing the calculation of an AR dust score can be found in Voss et al. (2020) (doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0059.1). ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.926522"!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 DATE/TIME https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0059.1 Dusty Atmospheric Rivers: Characteristics and Origins https://www.inscc.utah.edu/~rutz/ar_catalogs/ Defined by the Rutz AR catalogue DIF 9.4 2021-01-12 2026-04-30