Asian dust-storm activity dominated by Chinese dynasty changes since 2000 BP [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 How the Asian monsoon, earth surface processes and human development interact is not well known. Here, a new record of dust storm intensity shows a relationship between the stability of dynasties and dust storm activity for the last ~2200 years, which ...
Fahu Chen +13 more
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When a Dust Storm Is Not a Dust Storm: Reliability of Dust Records From the Storm Events Database and Implications for Geohealth Applications. [PDF]
Geohealth, 2023 Windblown dust impacts human health, air quality, and climate. The National Weather Service Storm Events Database (SED) is a widely used dataset of significant or unusual weather, including dust storms (DS), and resulting deaths, injuries, and material ...
Ardon-Dryer K, Gill TE, Tong DQ.
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An extensive dust storm impact on air quality on 22 November 2018 in Sydney, Australia, using satellite remote sensing and ground data. [PDF]
Environ Monit Assess, 2022 Recurrent dust storms represent a significant concern in Australia because of their related hazards and damages since particulate matter (PM) has harmful impacts on the environmental, health and economic sectors.
Attiya AA, Jones BG.
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Synoptic Causes and Socio-Economic Consequences of a Severe Dust Storm in the Middle East
Atmosphere, 2021 Dust storms represent one of the most severe, if underrated, natural hazards in drylands. This study uses ground observational data from meteorological stations and airports (SYNOP and METARs), satellite observations (MODIS level-3 gridded atmosphere ...
Nick Middleton +4 more
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Effects of the MY34/2018 Global Dust Storm as Measured by MSL REMS in Gale Crater. [PDF]
J Geophys Res Planets, 2019 The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) instrument is on board NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover. REMS has been measuring surface pressure, air, and ground brightness temperature, relative humidity, and ultraviolet (UV ...
Viúdez-Moreiras D +14 more
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Assessing the impact of sand and dust storm on agriculture: Empirical evidence from Mongolia. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Ahmadzai H, Malhotra A, Tutundjian S.
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Weakening Dust Storm Intensity in Arid Central Asia Due to Global Warming Over the Past 160 Years
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 Dust storms occur frequently in arid central Asia (ACA) and greatly influence the regional ecology/environment, human health, and security, as well as the global climate.
Jin Zhang +10 more
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East Asian dust storm in May 2017: observations, modelling, and its influence on the Asia-Pacific region [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018 . A severe dust storm event originated from the Gobi Desert in Central and East Asia during 2–7 May 2017. Based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite products, hourly environmental monitoring measurements from Chinese cities ...
Xiaoxiao Zhang +17 more
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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2019 We present a method for automated segmentation of dust storm areas on Mars images observed by an orbiter. We divide them into small patches. Normal basis vectors are obtained from the many small patches by principal component analysis.
Ryusei Gichu, Kazunori Ogohara
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Intensified dust storm activity and Valley fever infection in the southwestern United States. [PDF]
Geophys Res Lett, 2017 Climate models have consistently projected a drying trend in the southwestern United States, aiding speculation of increasing dust storms in this region.
Tong DQ +4 more
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