EarthCARE shows the distribution of mineral dust in the atmosphere Global distribution of mineral dust measured with EarthCARE’s high-spectral-resolution atmospheric lidar (ATLID) from June to August 2025 based on the EarthCARE products ATL_EBD_2A and ATL_TC__2A. ATLID detects the presence of aerosol with a resolution of about 1 km horizontally and 100 m vertically. For the global map, all data points that had been classified as dust were counted and allocated to 1° × 1° latitude-longitude grid boxes over the observation period of June to August 2025. The colours indicate the number of data points classified as dust in 1° × 1° latitude-longitude grid boxes. Credit: Leonard König, TROPOS.
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