Mapping Dust (IMAGE)
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(a) Climatology (2004?2016) of dust event frequency (%) in March?April?May (MAM), and anomaly (with reference to the climatology; %) in 2010 from (b) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), (c) prediction with En1 ensemble, (d) prediction with En2 ensemble, and anomalies averaged between 2011 and 2013 from (e) MODIS, (f) prediction with En1, and (g) prediction with En2. The dotted area indicates that at least eight out of the 12 ensemble members show the same sign as MODIS anomalies. Missing values are shaded in grey. The black boxes denote the averaging areas over the southwestern United States (box 1) and northern (box 2) and southern Great Plains (box 3). Pattern correlations (uncentered) between the predictions and MODIS over the southwestern United States (first) and the Great Plains (second) are shown in bottom left in blue. Credit: Pu, et al.
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