Mineral Dust

Peter Knippertz is an expert in meteorological aspects of dust storms. He received his PhD in Meteorology from the University of Cologne (Germany) in 2003 and was a researcher at the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison (USA, 2003–2005), Mainz (Germany, 2005–2009), where he received his habilitation in 2008, and Leeds (UK, 2009–2013). In 2013 he moved to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), where he is now a Professor of Meteorology. He is currently leading a major 5-year project on dust emission funded by the European Research Council and a large European consortium on cloud-aerosol interactions in West Africa funded by the European Commission. Jan-Berend Stuut has been working on aeolian dust from a marine perspective since his PhD, which he received from Utrecht University (the Netherlands) in 2001. After his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center Ocean Margins and the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, both at the University of Bremen, focusing on marine archives of mineral dust. He then moved to the NIOZ - Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in 2009 to further study modern dust deposition processes in and offshore deserts around the world. Since 2012 he is leading two projects on the marine environmental effects of Saharan funded by both the Dutch NSF (NWO) and the European Research Council (ERC). He is still affiliated to MARUM, Bremen, where he also leads a project on Saharan dust deposition in the A tlantic Ocean, funded by the German NSF (DFG).

Mineral Dust: A Key Player in The Earth System.- On Composition, Morphology and Size Distribution of Airborne Mineral Dust.- Identifying Sources of Aeolian Mineral Dust: Present and Past.- Processing / Ageing in the Atmosphere.- Dust Production Mechanisms.- Meteorological Aspects of Dust Storms.- Dust Observations and Climatology.- Dust Deposition.- Numerical Dust Models.- Operational Dust Prediction.- Radiative Effects of Dust.- Mineral Dust and Its Microphysical Interactions with Clouds.- Impact of Dust Radiative Forcing upon Climate.- Biogeochemical Impacts of Dust on the Global Carbon Cycle.- Dust and Human Health.- Loess Records.- Subaquatic Dust Deposits.- Ice Core Archives of Mineral Dust.