Publications

Kok, J. F., Storelvmo, T., Karydis, V. A., Adebiyi, A. A., Mahowald, N. M., Evan, A. T., He, C., & Leung, D. M. (2023). Mineral dust aerosol impacts on global climate and climate change. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 4(2), 71–86. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00379-5
Evan, A. T., Porter, W. C., Clemesha, R., Kuwano, A., & Frouin, R. (2023). Characteristics of Dust Storms Generated by Trapped Waves in the Lee of Mountains. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 80(3), 743–761. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0128.1
Kuwano, A., & Evan, A. (2022). A Method to Account for the Impact of Water Vapor on Observation‐Based Estimates of the Clear‐Sky Shortwave Direct Radiative Effect of Mineral Dust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(17). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD036620
Evan, A. T., Porter, W., Clemesha, R., Kuwano, A., & Frouin, R. (2022). Measurements of a dusty density current in the western Sonoran Desert. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 127(8), 22. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jd035830
McElroy, S., Dimitrova, A., Evan, A., & Benmarhnia, T. (2022). Saharan dust and childhood respiratory symptoms in Benin. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(8), 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084743
Evan, A., Walkowiak, B., & Frouin, R. (2022). On the Misclassification of Dust as Cloud at an AERONET Site in the Sonoran Desert. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 39(2), 181–191. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-21-0114.1
Voss, K. K., Evan, A. T., & Ralph, F. M. (2021). Evaluating the meteorological conditions associated with dusty atmospheric rivers. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 126(24), 14. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jd035403
Mascioli, N. R., Evan, A. T., & Ralph, F. M. (2021). Influence of dust on precipitation during landfalling atmospheric rivers in an idealized framework. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 126(22), 17. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jd034813
Evan, A., & Eisenman, I. (2021). A mechanism for regional variations in snowpack melt under rising temperature. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-00996-w
Francis, D., Fonseca, R., Nelli, N., Cuesta, J., Weston, M., Evan, A., & Temimi, M. (2020). The atmospheric drivers of the major Saharan dust storm in June 2020. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(24). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl090102
Voss, K. K., Evan, A. T., Prather, K. A., & Ralph, F. M. (2020). Dusty atmospheric rivers: Characteristics and origins. Journal of Climate, 33(22), 9749–9762. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0059.1
Yuan, T., Yu, H., Chin, M., Remer, L. A., McGee, D., & Evan, A. (2020). Anthropogenic decline of African dust: Insights from the Holocene records and beyond. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(22), e2020GL089711. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089711
Voss, K. K., & Evan, A. (2020). A new satellite-based global climatology of dust aerosol optical depth. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 59(1), 83–102. https://doi.org/10.1175/jamc-d-19-0194.1
Evan, A. T. (2019). Downslope winds and dust storms in the Salton Basin. Monthly Weather Review, 147(7), 2387–2402. https://doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-18-0357.1
Evan, A. T. (2019). A new method to characterize changes in the seasonal cycle of snowpack. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 58(1), 131–143. https://doi.org/10.1175/jamc-d-18-0150.1
Dalu, G. A., Gaetani, M., Lavaysse, C., Flamant, C., Evan, A. T., & Baldi, M. (2018). Simple solutions for the summer shallow atmospheric circulation over North Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144(712), 765–779. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3246
Kok, J. F., Ward, D. S., Mahowald, N. M., & Evan, A. T. (2018). Global and regional importance of the direct dust-climate feedback. Nature Communications, 9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02620-y
Evan, A. T. (2018). Surface winds and dust biases in climate models. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(2), 1079–1085. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl076353
Wang, W. J., Evan, A. T., Lavaysse, C., & Flamant, C. (2017). The role the Saharan Heat Low plays in dust emission and transport during summertime in North Africa. Aeolian Research, 28, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2017.07.001
Lavaysse, C., Flamant, C., Evan, A., Janicot, S., & Gaetani, M. (2016). Recent climatological trend of the Saharan heat low and its impact on the West African climate. Climate Dynamics, 47(11), 3479–3498. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2847-z
Pecenak, Z. K., Mejia, F. A., Kurtz, B., Evan, A., & Kleissl, J. (2016). Simulating irradiance enhancement dependence on cloud optical depth and solar zenith angle. Solar Energy, 136, 675–681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2016.07.045
Norris, J. R., Allen, R. J., Evan, A. T., Zelinka, M. D., O’Dell, C. W., & Klein, S. A. (2016). Evidence for climate change in the satellite cloud record. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18273
Evan, A. T., Flamant, C., Gaetani, M., & Guichard, F. (2016). The past, present and future of African dust. Nature, 531(7595), 493-+. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17149
Allen, R. J., Evan, A. T., & Booth, B. B. B. (2015). Interhemispheric aerosol radiative forcing and tropical precipitation shifts during the late Twentieth Century. Journal of Climate, 28(20), 8219–8246. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-15-0148.1
Yu, K. L., D’Odorico, P., Bhattachan, A., Okin, G. S., & Evan, A. T. (2015). Dust-rainfall feedback in West African Sahel. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(18), 7563–7571. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015gl065533
Norris, J. R., & Evan, A. T. (2015). Empirical removal of artifacts from the ISCCP and PATMOS-x satellite cloud records. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 32(4), 691–702. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-14-00058.1
Evan, A. T., Fiedler, S., Zhao, C., Menut, L., Schepanski, K., Flamant, C., & Doherty, O. (2015). Derivation of an observation-based map of North African dust emission. Aeolian Research, 16, 153–162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2015.01.001
Evan, A. T., Flamant, C., Lavaysse, C., Kocha, C., & Saci, A. (2015). Water vapor-forced greenhouse warming over the Sahara Desert and the recent recovery from the Sahelian drought. Journal of Climate, 28(1), 108–123. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-14-00039.1
Doherty, O. M., & Evan, A. T. (2014). Identification of a new dust-stratocumulus indirect effect over the tropical North Atlantic. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(19), 6935–6942. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gl060897
Evan, A. T., Flamant, C., Fiedler, S., & Doherty, O. (2014). An analysis of aeolian dust in climate models. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(16), 5996–6001. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gl060545
Foltz, G. R., Evan, A. T., Freitag, H. P., Brown, S., & McPhaden, M. J. (2013). Dust accumulation biases in PIRATA shortwave radiation records. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 30(7), 1414–1432. https://doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-12-00169.1
Evan, A. T., Allen, R. J., Bennartz, R., & Vimont, D. J. (2013). The modification of sea surface temperature anomaly linear damping time scales by stratocumulus clouds. Journal of Climate, 26(11), 3619–3630. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-12-00370.1
Das, R., Evan, A., & Lawrence, D. (2013). Contributions of long-distance dust transport to atmospheric P inputs in the Yucatan Peninsula. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 27. https://doi.org/10.1029/2012gb004420
Evan, A. T., & Norris, J. R. (2012). On global changes in effective cloud height. Geophysical Research Letters, 39. https://doi.org/10.1029/2012gl053171
Evan, A. T., Foltz, G. R., & Zhang, D. X. (2012). Physical response of the tropical-subtropical North Atlantic Ocean to decadal-multidecadal forcing by African dust. Journal of Climate, 25(17), 5817–5829. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-11-00438.1
Wang, C. Z., Dong, S. F., Evan, A. T., Foltz, G. R., & Lee, S. K. (2012). Multidecadal covariability of North Atlantic sea surface temperature, African dust, sahel rainfall, and Atlantic hurricanes. Journal of Climate, 25(15), 5404–5415. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-11-00413.1
Heidinger, A. K., Evan, A. T., Foster, M. J., & Walther, A. (2012). A naive Bayesian cloud-detection scheme derived from CALIPSO and applied within PATMOS-x. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 51(6), 1129–1144. https://doi.org/10.1175/jamc-d-11-02.1
Evan, A. T. (2012). Atlantic hurricane activity following two major volcanic eruptions. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 117. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011jd016716
Evan, A. (2012). Climate science: Aerosols and Atlantic aberrations. Nature, 484(7393), 170–171. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11037
Evan, A. T., Foltz, G. R., Zhang, D. X., & Vimont, D. J. (2011). Influence of African dust on ocean-atmosphere variability in the tropical Atlantic. Nature Geoscience, 4(11), 762–765. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1276
Evan, A. T., Kossin, J. P., Chung, C., & Ramanathan, V. (2011). Arabian Sea tropical cyclones intensified by emissions of black carbon and other aerosols. Nature, 479(7371), 94-U119. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10552
Evan, A. T., & Camargo, S. J. (2011). A climatology of Arabian Sea cyclonic storms. Journal of Climate, 24(1), 140–158. https://doi.org/10.1175/2010jcli3611.1
Evan, A. T., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2010). African dust over the northern tropical Atlantic: 1955-2008. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 49(11), 2213–2229. https://doi.org/10.1175/2010jamc2485.1
Evan, A. T., Vimont, D. J., Heidinger, A. K., Kossin, J. P., & Bennartz, R. (2009). The role of aerosols in the evolution of tropical North Atlantic Ocean temperature anomalies. Science, 324(5928), 778–781. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1167404
Evan, A. T., Heidinger, A. K., Bennartz, R., Bennington, V., Mahowald, N. M., Corrada-Bravo, H., Velden, C. S., Myhre, G., & Kossin, J. P. (2008). Ocean temperature forcing by aerosols across the Atlantic tropical cyclone development region. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 9. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007gc001774
Ramankutty, N., Evan, A. T., Monfreda, C., & Foley, J. A. (2008). Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2007gb002952
Evan, A. T., Heidinger, A. K., & Vimont, D. J. (2007). Arguments against a physical long-term trend in global ISCCP cloud amounts. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2006gl028083
Evan, A. T., Dunion, J., Foley, J. A., Heidinger, A. K., & Velden, C. S. (2006). New evidence for a relationship between Atlantic tropical cyclone activity and African dust outbreaks. Geophysical Research Letters, 33(19). https://doi.org/10.1029/2006gl026408
Evan, A. T., Heidinger, A. K., & Pavolonis, M. J. (2006). Development of a new over-water Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer dust detection algorithm. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 27(18), 3903–3924. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431160600646359
Evan, A. T., Heidinger, A. K., & Knippertz, P. (2006). Analysis of winter dust activity off the coast of West Africa using a new 24-year over-water advanced very high resolution radiometer satellite dust climatology. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 111(D12). https://doi.org/10.1029/2005jd006336