“…To date, approximately 20 studies have been published on this particular event and a series of smaller dust storms that occurred throughout the month of September 2009. These papers have explored a range of dust‐related research areas such as respiratory health and air quality [ Holyoak et al ., ; Jayaratne et al ., ; Barnett et al ., 2012; Merrifield et al ., 2013; Aryal et al ., ], economic and aviation disruption [ Tozer , ; Baddock et al ., ; Tozer and Leys , ], aerosol remote sensing [ Li et al ., ; Tramutoli et al ., ; Jones and Christopher , ; De Deckker et al ., ], airflow modeling [ Gunawardena et al ., ], receptor site sampling and meteorology [ Leys et al ., ; McGowan and Soderholm , ], marine biology [ Hallegraeff et al ., ; Gabric et al ., ], and geochemistry [ Box et al ., ; Radhi et al ., ; Aryal et al ., ; Gunawardena et al ., ; De Deckker et al ., ; Reynolds et al ., ]. In contributing across a suite of geoscientific and environmental topics, these studies demonstrate the wide areas in which mineral dust has emerged as an important study area in Earth system science [ Shao et al ., ; Bryant , ].…”