Are vegetation-related roughness changes the cause of the recent decrease in dust emission from the Sahel?

Neither of the time series shows a clear trend, and temporal variations are not coherent (red and blue dashed lines in Figure 3 b).

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Six of the seven stations show a negative trend varying from −19 to −64%; only winds at Tombouctou increase ( Table 1 ).

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The highly significant interannual correlations between the independently estimated FDE and mean wind (0.92), and FDE and DUP (0.93) reflect the strong control of wind speed on the occurrence of dust emission.

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