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• WRF-Chem v3.9 simulations of the East Asian dust storm in May 2017: modeling sensitivities to dust emission and dry deposition schemes.

  Authors:Yi Zeng, Minghuai Wang, Chun Zhao, Siyu Chen, Zhoukun Liu, Xin Huang, et al.From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 30, 2020251 words Brief article Dust aerosol plays an important role in the radiative budget and hydrological cycle, but large uncertainties remain for simulating dust emission and dry deposition processes in models. In this study, we investigated dust...

• Feedbacks of dust and boundary layer meteorology during a dust storm in the eastern Mediterranean

  Authors:A. Benedetti, A. Bozzo, T. Haiden, L. Jones, M. Razinger, J. Flemming, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 15, Issue 22) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 20, 2015399 words Brief article Aerosols affect the atmosphere through direct interaction with short-wave and long-wave radiation and the microphysical properties of clouds. In this paper we report in detail on several mechanisms by which the...

• End the drought in drought research

  From:Nature (Vol. 573, Issue 7774) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 2019644 words Article 1410LPolicymakers battling water shortages and land degradation need independent scientific advice. Policymakers battling water shortages and land degradation need independent scientific advice. Author Affiliations:...

• Developing Subdomain Allocation Algorithms Based on Spatial and Communicational Constraints to Accelerate Dust Storm Simulation

  Authors:Zhipeng Gui, Manzhu Yu, Chaowei Yang, Yunfeng Jiang, Songqing Chen, Jizhe Xia, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 4, 201612,653 words Report 1440LDust storm has serious disastrous impacts on environment, human health, and assets. The developments and applications of dust storm models have contributed significantly to better understand and predict the...

• Effects of dust aerosols on tropospheric chemistry during a typical pre-monsoon season dust storm in northern India

  Authors:R. Kumar, M. C. Barth, S. Madronich, M. Naja, G. R. Carmichael, G. G. Pfister, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 14, Issue 13) Peer-Reviewed

  July 4, 201445 words Brief article Byline: R. Kumar, M. C. Barth, S. Madronich, M. Naja, G. R. Carmichael, G. G. Pfister, C. Knote, G. P. Brasseur, N. Ojha, T. Sarangi To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article,...

• Asian Dust Storm Elevates Children's Respiratory Health Risks: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Children's Clinic Visits across Taipei (Taiwan)

  Authors:Hwa-Lung Yu, Lung-Chang Chien, and Chiang-Hsing YangFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 27, 20125,957 words Article 1540LAuthor(s): Hwa-Lung Yu 1 , Lung-Chang Chien 2 , Chiang-Hsing Yang 3 , * Introduction Every winter and spring season, Asian dust storms (ADS) are frequently a major health problem in many cities throughout the...

• Temperature Drops and the Onset of Severe Avian Influenza A H5N1 Virus Outbreaks

  Authors:Chung-Ming Liu, Shu-Hua Lin, Ying-Chen Chen, Katherine Chun-Min Lin, Tsung-Shu Joseph Wu, and Chwan-Chuen KingFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 2, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 7, 20073,019 words Article 1530LGlobal influenza surveillance is one of the most effective strategies for containing outbreaks and preparing for a possible pandemic influenza. Since the end of 2003, highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAI)...

• High-frequency observation during sand and dust storms at the Qingtu Lake Observatory.

  Authors:Xuebo Li, Yongxiang Huang, Guohua Wang, and Xiaojing ZhengFrom:Earth System Science Data (Vol. 13, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 14, 2021316 words Brief article Partially due to global climate change, sand and dust storms (SDSs) have occurred more and more frequently, yet a detailed measurement of SDS events at different heights is still lacking. Here we provide a high-frequency...

• The association between dust storms and daily non-accidental mortality in the United States, 1993-2005

  Authors:James Lewis Crooks, Wayne E. Cascio, Madelyn S. Percy, Jeanette Reyes, Lucas M. Neas, and Elizabeth D. HilbornFrom:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 124, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 20168,019 words Report 1490LBACKGROUND: The impact of dust storms on human health has been studied in the context of Asian, Saharan, Arabian, and Australian storms, but there has been no recent population-level epidemiological research on the dust...

• Position correction in dust storm forecasting using LOTOS-EUROS v2.1: grid-distorted data assimilation v1.0.

  Authors:Jianbing Jin, Arjo Segers, Hai Xiang Lin, Bas Henzing, Xiaohui Wang, Arnold Heemink, et al.From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 14, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 10, 2021266 words Brief article When calibrating simulations of dust clouds, both the intensity and the position are important. Intensity errors arise mainly from uncertain emission and sedimentation strengths, while position errors are attributed...

• Teaching Online From 'Mortaritaville' in Iraq; Amid incoming fire and dust storms, an economics professor at war kept her classes in North Dakota going

  Author:Ben TerrisFrom:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 56, Issue 08)

  Oct. 5, 20091,105 words Article Byline: Ben Terris When Cheryl J. Wachenheim, an associate professor of agribusiness and applied economics at North Dakota State University, says she taught her courses last year from a remote location, she means a...

• Investigation of three-dimensional evolution of East Asian dust storm by modeling and remote sensing measurements

  Authors:Jiawei Li and Zhiwei HanFrom:Advances in MeteorologyPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20156,330 words Report 1590LThe three-dimensional evolution of an East Asian dust storm during 23-26 April 2009 was investigated by utilizing a regional air quality model system (RAQMS) and satellite measurements. This severe dust storm hit Mt....

• Comparison of the synoptic environments conducive to eastward versus southeastward transport of Asian dust events

  Authors:Fujung Tsai and Wei-Nai ChenFrom:Advances in MeteorologyPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20146,051 words Report 1500LAsian dust events that travel eastward and southeastward in the lower troposphere affect different areas near the coastal East Asia. To understand the synoptic differences between the two types of dust events, four dust...

• Wind Erosion and the Dust Bowl.

  Author:Amara AlexanderFrom:The Science Teacher (Vol. 87, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  April-May 2020442 words Article 1250LThe Great Depression began with the crash of the stock market in 1929 and intensified with the devastating conditions of the Dust Bowl. Across the Great Plains--Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and...

• Aerosol optical depth (AOD): spatial and temporal variations and association with meteorological covariates in Taklimakan desert, China.

  Authors:Jinglong Li, Xiangyu Ge, Qing He, and Alim AbbasFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 5, 20218,147 words Article 1330LAerosol optical depth (AOD) is a key parameter that reflects aerosol characteristics. However, research on the AOD of dust aerosols and various environmental variables is scarce. Therefore, we conducted in-depth studies...

• Forecasting the northern African dust outbreak towards Europe in April 2011: a model intercomparison

  Authors:N. Huneeus, S. Basart, S. Fiedler, J.-J. Morcrette, A. Benedetti, J. Mulcahy, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 16, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 21, 2016309 words Brief article In the framework of the World Meteorological Organisation's Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System, we evaluated the predictions of five state-of-the-art dust forecast models during an intense...

• Remote sensing and modeling of atmospheric dust and studying its impact on environment, weather, and climate

  Authors:Hesham El-Askary, Seon K. Park, Slobodan Nickovic, and Mian ChinFrom:Advances in MeteorologyPeer-Reviewed

  Annual 20151,070 words Editorial 1830LAerosols have been regarded as one of the major constituents of the atmosphere and have a wide range of impacts at different levels, scales, and sectors. Remote sensing and modeling of the atmospheric dust storms,...

• Machine learning for observation bias correction with application to dust storm data assimilation

  Authors:Jianbing Jin, Hai Xiang Lin, Arjo Segers, Yu Xie, and Arnold HeeminkFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 19, Issue 15) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 9, 2019384 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Data assimilation algorithms rely on a basic assumption of an unbiased observation error. However, the presence of inconsistent measurements with nontrivial biases or inseparable baselines is unavoidable in practice....

• The impact of hail storms on the agricultural economy of Cyprus and their characteristics

  Authors:K. A. Nicolaides, G. Photiou, K. Savvidou, A. Orphanou, S. C. Michaelides, T. S. Karakostas, et al.From:Advances in Geosciences (Vol. 17, Issue 17) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 13, 2009209 words Brief article The contemporary economy of Cyprus is mostly based on services; agriculture was by tradition a strong contributor to the economy of the island, but nowadays its contribution is rather limited. At all times, the...

• Long-range transport and mixing of aerosol sources during the 2013 North American biomass burning episode: analysis of multiple lidar observations in the western Mediterranean basin

  Authors:Gerard Ancellet, Jacques Pelon, Julien Totems, Patrick Chazette, Ariane Bazureau, Francois Dulac, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 16, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 15, 2016333 words Brief article Long-range transport of biomass burning (BB) aerosols between North America and the Mediterranean region took place in June 2013. A large number of ground-based and airborne lidar measurements were deployed...