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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
AbstractWindblown 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 losses in the USA. The SED is frequently used by medical, social, and atmospheric scientists.
Thomas E Gill, Karin Ardon-Dryer, Daniel Tong   +2 more
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Dust storms and human health

Clean Air Journal, 2014
Dust storms play a pervasive role in the Earth system. They are events of considerable extent and of frequent occurrence in drylands. The amount of suspended material they contain is an important aspect of dust storms in relationship to health. They transport particulates, pollutants and biological materials for long distances downwind.
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A Dust Storm at Sea [PDF]

Nature, 1892
A FEW days ago, while returning to Tokio from the southern part of Japan, I joined the s.s. Yokohama Maru, which, whilst crossing from Shanghai to Nagasaki had passed through a curious dust storm. Small quantities of the dust were yet to be seen in sheltered corners of the vessel. The commander, Captain R. Swain, who gave me a specimen of the material,
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Dust Storms

Ibn Al-Haitham Journal for Pure and Applied Sciences, 2017
This study deals with the phenomena of dust storms in Iraq based on the data recorded by the Iraqi Organization for three stations which are: Mosul, Baghdad, and Nasiriyah. 60  years was  the    period and  the  relation  between the  three stations data covered dust storms cases and the wind speed was also studied.
S. A. Hassn, A. Jamil
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Study of the strongest dust storm occurred in Uzbekistan in November 2021. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
Nishonov BE, Kholmatjanov BM, Labzovskii LD, Rakhmatova N, Shardakova L, Abdulakhatov EI, Yarashev DU, Toderich KN, Khujanazarov T, Belikov DA.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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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The geography of dust storms

, 1986
Dust storms have a great many environmental implications in the world's dry lands where they are particularly common. Four main classes of dust event are identified and defined: dust storms, dust haze, blowing dust and dust devils. The geography of dust storms is analysed in each of eight major world regions: Africa, the Middle East, South-west Asia ...
Middleton, N, Middleton, Nick
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Short-term exposure to some heavy metals carried with PM₁₀ and cardiovascular system biomarkers during dust storm. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
Badeenezhad A, Parseh I, Veisi A, Rostami S, Ghelichi-Ghojogh M, Badfar G, Abbasi F.   +6 more
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Alternate oscillations of Martian hydrogen and oxygen upper atmospheres during a major dust storm. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2022
Masunaga K, Terada N, Yoshida N, Nakamura Y, Kuroda T, Yoshioka K, Suzuki Y, Nakagawa H, Kimura T, Tsuchiya F, Murakami G, Yamazaki A, Usui T, Yoshikawa I.   +13 more
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Strategies and experiences for sand and dust storm adaptation: A qualitative study in Iran. [PDF]

J Environ Health Sci Eng, 2021
Salehi S, Ardalan A, Ostadtaghizadeh A, Zareiyan A, Garmaroudi G, Rahimiforoushani A.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source