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Tayyebeh Mesbahzadeh, Mario Marcello Miglietta, Farshad Soleimani Sardoo, Nir Krakauer and Mohammad Hasheminejad
The duration of dust days (DDD) is one of the most important parameters that may worsen the effects of the presence of dust in the affected areas. Persistent pollution over consecutive dusty days can have particularly negative effects on the human respir...
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Sara Karami, Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis, Saviz Sehat Kashani, Mehdi Rahnama and Alireza Rashki
This study investigates four types of synoptic dust events in the Middle East region, including cyclonic, pre-frontal, post-frontal and Shamal dust storms. For each of these types, three intense and pervasive dust events are analyzed from a synoptic mete...
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Sarah Albugami, Steven Palmer, Jonathan Cinnamon and Jeroen Meersmans
Monthly meteorological data from 27 observation stations provided by the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME) of Saudi Arabia were used to analyze the spatial and temporal distribution of atmospheric dust in Saudi Arabia between 2000 and 2016....
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Nick Middleton
Dust storms present numerous hazards to human society and are particularly significant to people living in the Dust Belt which stretches from the Sahara across the Middle East to northeast Asia. This paper presents a review of dust storm variability and ...
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Oleg Onishchenko, Viktor Fedun, Wendell Horton, Oleg Pokhotelov and Gary Verth
According to modern concepts, the main natural sources of dust in the atmosphere are dust storms and associated dust devils—rotating columns of rising dust. The impact of dust and aerosols on climate change in the past, present and future is one of...
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Bernhard Lucke, Joel Roskin, Kim André Vanselow, Hendrik J. Bruins, Nizar Abu-Jaber, Katleen Deckers, Susanne Lindauer, Naomi Porat, Paula J. Reimer, Rupert Bäumler, Tali Erickson-Gini and Paula Kouki
Loess accumulated in the Negev desert during the Pleistocene and primary and secondary loess remains cover large parts of the landscape. Holocene loess deposits are however absent. This could be due low accumulation rates, lack of preservation, and highe...
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Marcin Hojan, Miroslaw Rurek, Miroslaw Wieclaw and Adam Krupa
The article aims to present extreme aeolian processes observed in April 2011 in the fields of the Szamocin municipality in Pojezierze Wielkopolskie (the Great Poland Lakeland). Aeolian erosion of cropland was fostered by strong wind with gusts exceeding ...
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Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis, Diana Francis, Alireza Rashki, Jean-Pierre Chaboureau and Umesh C. Dumka
The Sistan Basin has been recognized as one of the most active dust sources and windiest desert environments in the world. Although the dust activity in Sistan maximizes during the summer, rare but intense dust storms may also occur in the winter. This s...
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Ali Al-Hemoud, Ali Al-Dousari, Ahmad Al-Shatti, Ahmed Al-Khayat, Weam Behbehani and Mariam Malak
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Siegmund Missall, Abdulla Abliz, Ümüt Halik, Niels Thevs and Martin Welp
Cities at the fringe of the Taklimakan desert in NW China are prone to dust and sand storms with serious consequences for human well-being. The Kökyar Protection Forest was established in the 1980s as an ecological engineering project with the intent of ...
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