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Future (late twenty-first century) versus historic (1861-2005) dust event frequency in the contiguous United States in spring (top) and summer (bottom) assuming a comparatively high carbon dioxide emissions pathway (RCP 8.5) in the coming decades. NOAA Climate.gov map, adapted from Pu and Ginoux, 2017.