Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-869-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-869-2015
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11 Jun 2015
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Twelve thousand years of dust: the Holocene global dust cycle constrained by natural archives

S. Albani, N. M. Mahowald, G. Winckler, R. F. Anderson, L. I. Bradtmiller, B. Delmonte, R. François, M. Goman, N. G. Heavens, P. P. Hesse, S. A. Hovan, S. G. Kang, K. E. Kohfeld, H. Lu, V. Maggi, J. A. Mason, P. A. Mayewski, D. McGee, X. Miao, B. L. Otto-Bliesner, A. T. Perry, A. Pourmand, H. M. Roberts, N. Rosenbloom, T. Stevens, and J. Sun

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AR by Samuel Albani on behalf of the Authors (16 Mar 2015)  Author's response   Manuscript 
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (06 May 2015) by Denis-Didier Rousseau
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We propose an innovative framework to organize paleodust records, formalized in a publicly accessible database, and discuss the emerging properties of the global dust cycle during the Holocene by integrating our analysis with simulations performed with the Community Earth System Model. We show how the size distribution of dust is intrinsically related to the dust mass accumulation rates and that only considering a consistent size range allows for a consistent analysis of the global dust cycle.