edu.ucar.opensky::articles:43880 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T17:44:48.681339 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7sx6jn0 Soil moisture modulations of dust emissions introduce non‐negligible impacts on the dust direct radiative effect across the contiguous U.S. 2025-07-16T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7sx6jn0 https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115836 Jiménez Munoz, Pedro A. author Kumar, Rajesh author He, Cenlin author Lee, Jared author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher Soil moisture increases the cohesive forces of soil particles, making it more difficult to lift the particles by the wind. As a result, the soil moisture modulates the airborne dust abundance, which in turn modulates the Earth's radiative balance. The importance of these soil moisture modulations on the radiative balance is unknown, however. Herein we use WRF&#8208;Chem simulations to quantify the role of soil moisture modulations on the dust direct radiative effect. We focus on the contiguous U.S. due to the presence of important dust sources and good observational networks. Our results, based on the year of 2015, used a range of dust emissions and positive/negative soil moisture anomalies of &#177;25% and reveal a non&#8208;negligible impact of around 15% in the net radiation at the top of the atmosphere and surface, with a smaller impact in the atmosphere. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication <span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;" data-sheets-root="1">Copyright author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</span> None eng geoscientificInformation