On the Recent Amplification of Dust over the Arabian Peninsula during 2002 – 2012

This research was supported by the King Abdulla University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the Virtual Red Sea Initiative (Grant # REP/1/3268-01-01),the General Commission for Survey (under award number RGC/3/1612-01-0) and the Saudi ARAMCO-KAUST Marine Environmental Observatory(SAKMEO)at KAUST.All the data we used in this manuscript are publicly available. MERRA2 dataset was downloaded from https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/and ERA-interimdataset from https://apps.ecmwf.int/.MODIS, MISR and SeaWIFS satellite data products of AOD were downloaded from https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/. The authors would like to thank three anonymous reviewers for their constructive and helpful comments.