Dust sources in the Salton Sea Basin: A clear case of anthropogenically impacted dust budget

authors:

Alexander L. Frie, Alexis C. Garrison, Michael V. Schaefer, Steve M. Bates, Jon K. Botthoff, Mia R. Maltz, Samantha C. Ying, Timothy Lyons, Michael F. Allen, Emma L. Aronson, Roya Bahreini

publication:

Environmental Science and Technology. 16: 9378-9390

Year:

2019

month:

7 - July

description:

The Salton Sea Basin in California suffers from poor air quality, and an expanding dry lakebed (playa) presents a new potential dust source. In 2017–18, depositing dust was collected approximately monthly at five sites in the Salton Sea Basin and analyzed for total elemental and soluble anion content.

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