Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47394-z, published online 22 August 2019

This Article contains an error in the order of the Figures. Figures 4 and 5 were published as Figures 5 and 4 respectively. The correct Figures 4 and 5 appear below as Figures 1 and 2.

Figure 1
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Wind speeds measured at the Tocopilla transect. Wind speeds were measured on October 27 sampling date, with means calculated from twelve measurements. Sites 1, 2 and 3 are represented by dark, medium and light gray bars respectively. Means with different letters are statistically different (P < 0.05; two-way ANOVA, Tukey’s post-test, see methods).

Figure 2
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Six hours back trajectories of dust samples at the sites of the transects of the hyperarid core of the Atacama. (A) back trajectories calculated for the sites of the Iquique transect between 4 AM and 10 AM (dark red, dark green and dark blue squares) and between 11 AM and 5 PM (light red, light green and light blue circles) of the August 20 2018 sampling date. (B) back trajectories calculated for the sites of the Tocopilla transect between 4 AM and 10 AM of the October 27 2018 sampling date (dark red, dark green and dark blue squares) and between 11 AM and 5 PM (light red, light green and light blue circles). Thin black lines are topographic contours, with the coast drawn as a solid black line. Black stars and numbers below show the studied sites of each transect.