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A Global-Scale Mineral Dust Equation. [PDF]
J Geophys Res Atmos, 2022 AbstractA robust method to estimate mineral dust mass in ambient particulate matter (PM) is essential, as the dust fraction cannot be directly measured but is needed to understand dust impacts on the environment and human health. In this study, a global‐scale dust equation is developed that builds on the widely used Interagency Monitoring of Protected ...
Liu X +4 more
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Respiratory surveillance in mineral dust-exposed workers. [PDF]
Breathe (Sheff), 2020 Recently, there has been a worldwide resurgence in pneumoconiosis, or pulmonary fibrosis due to occupational mineral dust exposure. In Queensland, Australia, there has been a re-emergence of coal workers' pneumoconiosis and silicosis. Some coal mining communities have experienced a resurgence of progressive massive fibrosis in the USA and a worldwide ...
Wood C, Yates D.
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Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2023 About 50% of the global aerosol is mineral dust, part of which originates from industrial stockpiles. Mineral dust aerosol adversely affects the environment, public health, occupational safety, and productivity.
Hsin-Chieh Kung +4 more
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Journal of Taibah University for Science, 2022 Pneumoconiosis is a systemic disease mainly caused by diffuse fibrosis (scar) of lung tissue due to long-term inhalation of productive mineral dust in occupational activities and retention in the lungs.
Na Wang, Qinglin Yin, Xidong Du
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Fully Dynamic High–Resolution Model for Dispersion of Icelandic Airborne Mineral Dust
Atmosphere, 2022 Icelandic topsoil sediments, as confirmed by numerous scientific studies, represent the largest and the most important European source of mineral dust. Strong winds, connected with the intensive cyclonic circulation in the North Atlantic, induce intense ...
Bojan Cvetkovic +14 more
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Role of the convergence zone over West Africa in controlling Saharan mineral dust load and transport in the boreal summer [PDF]
Tellus: Series B, Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 2014 During summer, large amounts of mineral dust are emitted and transported from North Africa over the tropical North Atlantic towards the Caribbean with the exact quantity varying greatly from year to year.
Owen M. Doherty +2 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 The transport of air pollutants from areas surrounding the Tibetan Plateau (TP) has recently been studied. However, the major sources of atmospheric total suspended particulate matter (TSP) on the central TP remain unclear due to a lack of in-situ ...
Haotian Zhang +13 more
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Contrasting mineral dust abundances from X-ray diffraction and reflectance spectroscopy [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2022 Mineral dust particles dominate aerosol mass in the atmosphere and directly modify Earth's radiative balance through absorption and scattering. This radiative forcing varies strongly with mineral composition, yet there is still limited knowledge on the ...
M. R. Sadrian +2 more
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Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 2020 Owing to the oversimplification of the evaporation model, existing numerical analysis cannot accurately characterize the evaporation characteristics, which has limited its significance for engineering.
Xinglian Ye +3 more
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A new optical-based technique for real-time measurements of mineral dust concentration in PM10 using a virtual impactor [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2020 Atmospheric mineral dust influences Earth's radiative budget, cloud formation, and lifetime; has adverse health effects; and affects air quality through the increase of regulatory PM10 concentrations, making its real-time quantification in the atmosphere
L. Drinovec +11 more
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