image: Photo of a Haboob, an Arabic word used to describe an intense dust storms. This Haboob is encroaching on the town of Hombori in Mali in August 2004. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 9 October 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by W. Wang at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, CA, and colleagues was titled, "On the decadal scale correlation between African dust and Sahel rainfall: The role of Saharan heat low-forced winds." view more
Credit: [Credit: Photo credit: Françoise Guichard]