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203 Citations
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Sand and Dust Storms: Impact Mitigation

  • Nick Middleton and
  • Utchang Kang

17 June 2017

Sand and dust storms (SDS) play an integral role in the Earth system but they also present a range of hazards to the environmental and economic sustainability of human society. These hazards are of considerable importance for residents of dryland env...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,358 Views
11 Pages

Monitoring Dust Storms in Iraq Using Satellite Data

  • Reyadh Albarakat and
  • Venkataraman Lakshmi

24 August 2019

Dust storms can suspend large quantities of sand and cause haze in the boundary layer over local and regional scales. Iraq is one of the countries that is often impacted to a large degree by the occurrences of dust storms. The time between June 29 to...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,321 Views
13 Pages

Dust storms, which are common aversive occurrences in northern China, result from high winds, dry soil or dust, and soil surface disturbance. Exposure to dust storms, regardless of duration, can induce varying mental and physical distress levels. Rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,178 Views
13 Pages

9 July 2018

Sand and dust storms (SDS) are global phenomena that significantly impact the socio-economy, human health, and the environment. The characterization of SDS intensity is a fundamental aspect of SDS issues and studies. In this study, a sand and dust st...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,440 Views
14 Pages

The Response of Airborne Mycobiome to Dust Storms in the Eastern Mediterranean

  • Xuefeng Peng,
  • Daniela Gat,
  • Adina Paytan and
  • Yinon Rudich

25 September 2021

Airborne microbial communities directly impact the health of humans, animals, plants, and receiving ecosystems. While airborne bacterial and fungal communities have been studied by both cultivation-based methods and metabarcoding surveys targeting sp...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,082 Views
17 Pages

The transpacific transport of mineral dust often occurs in spring, and a large amount of aeolian dust is deposited in the Asian continent and north Pacific. Moreover, a heterogeneous reaction occurs when dust particles are mixed with man-made polluti...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,980 Views
25 Pages

Socioeconomic and Health Impacts of Dust Storms in Southwest Iran

  • Neamat MalAmiri,
  • Alireza Rashki,
  • Ali Al-Dousari and
  • Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis

31 January 2025

Dust storms are frequent meteorological phenomena in the arid and semi-arid regions of Khuzestan province (KHP) in southwest Iran. These storms result in significant social and economic repercussions that extend beyond mere meteorological and climati...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,994 Views
14 Pages

Establishing an Early Warning System for Dust Storms in Peri-Desert Regions

  • Aishajiang Aili,
  • Abdul Waheed,
  • Xinfeng Zhao and
  • Hailiang Xu

The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China stands as a significant contributor to dust storms, with its fringe oases already designated as ecologically fragile due to the severe impacts of these storms. This study focuses on Moyu County, situated on th...

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  • Open Access
105 Citations
13,225 Views
13 Pages

Health Impact Assessment Associated with Exposure to PM10 and Dust Storms in Kuwait

  • Ali Al-Hemoud,
  • Ali Al-Dousari,
  • Ahmad Al-Shatti,
  • Ahmed Al-Khayat,
  • Weam Behbehani and
  • Mariam Malak

8 January 2018

Little information is available on the assessment of health impact concerning the Middle Eastern dust storms and PM10 concentration levels despite the aridity of the region and frequent dust storms occurring in this part of the world. A prospective s...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,124 Views
17 Pages

The Transport Path and Vertical Structure of Dust Storms in East Asia and the Impacts on Cities in Northern China

  • Tana Bao,
  • Guilin Xi,
  • Yanling Hao,
  • I-Shin Chang,
  • Jing Wu,
  • Zhichao Xue,
  • Erdemtu Jin,
  • Wenxing Zhang and
  • Yuhai Bao

19 June 2023

Dust storm disasters have emerged as a significant environmental challenge in East Asia. However, relying on a single monitoring method to track dust storms presents limitations and can be variable. Therefore, it is necessary to use a combination of...

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  • Open Access
83 Citations
8,361 Views
14 Pages

27 August 2017

Dust is a common weather phenomenon in the Arabian Gulf, which has severely affected economy and health. Sand and dust storms (SDS) trajectories in the Arabian Gulf were temporally and spatially monitored from March 2000 to March 2017. Eight major SD...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,711 Views
17 Pages

6 December 2024

The March 2021 dust storm in China degraded air quality across a wide area of Asia. Atmospheric circulation and meteorological factors play an important role in the occurrence of dust storms. To understand whether decreasing or increasing these facto...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,273 Views
14 Pages

Occurrence and Reverse Transport of Severe Dust Storms Associated with Synoptic Weather in East Asia

  • Wenshuai Li,
  • Wencai Wang,
  • Yang Zhou,
  • Yuanyuan Ma,
  • Daizhou Zhang and
  • Lifang Sheng

24 December 2018

The range and time of the environmental effects of Asian dust are closely dependent on the pathways and the speed of dust plume movement. In this study, the occurrence and movement of two dust storms in China in May 2017 were examined by using open s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,136 Views
26 Pages

Martian Dust Storms: Reviews and Perspective for the Tianwen-3 Mars Sample Return Mission

  • Fei He,
  • Zhaojin Rong,
  • Zhaopeng Wu,
  • Jiawei Gao,
  • Kai Fan,
  • Xu Zhou,
  • Limei Yan,
  • Yuqi Wang and
  • Yong Wei

17 July 2024

Dust storms play a crucial role in the climate system and the space environment of Mars, significantly impacting human exploration activities on the planet. The Martian dust storms exhibit significant regional, seasonal and interannual variations due...

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  • Open Access
49 Citations
14,578 Views
20 Pages

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 2...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,632 Views
23 Pages

18 December 2024

The “dust belt” region extending from the western Sahara to the Gobi Desert frequently generates severe dust storms that cause hazardous air quality and disrupt daily activities. Dust storm management systems with proactive mitigation str...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,892 Views
17 Pages

19 August 2024

Sand and dust storms (SDS) pose a wide range of hazards to human society, affecting people in drylands and beyond. This paper, based on a wide-ranging review of the scientific and grey literature, presents, for the first time, a comprehensive synthes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,893 Views
16 Pages

11 August 2023

Middle Eastern countries suffer from dust events due to extended arid areas. Among them, Iran is a country experiencing a high record of dust events each year causing major environmental challenges. Although there are previous studies of the present...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,217 Views
17 Pages

18 September 2022

Sand and dust storms (SDSs) are common environmental hazards in spring in Asian continent and have significant impacts on human health, weather, and climate. While many technologies have been developed to monitor SDSs, this study investigates the spe...

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  • Open Access
66 Citations
8,609 Views
27 Pages

Atmospheric Dynamics and Numerical Simulations of Six Frontal Dust Storms in the Middle East Region

  • Nasim Hossein Hamzeh,
  • Sara Karami,
  • Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis,
  • Ina Tegen,
  • Mohamad Moradi and
  • Christian Opp

18 January 2021

This study analyzes six frontal dust storms in the Middle East during the cold period (October–March), aiming to examine the atmospheric circulation patterns and force dynamics that triggered the fronts and the associated (pre- or post-frontal)...

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  • Open Access
1,518 Views
14 Pages

Spatiotemporal Variations and Key Driving Factors of Dust Storms in China’s Source Regions from 2000 to 2024

  • Chenghao Tan,
  • Chong Liu,
  • Tian Li,
  • Xiali Liu,
  • Mingjin Tang and
  • Tianliang Zhao

The Taklimakan Desert (TD), located in the Tarim Basin, and the Gobi Desert (GD), spanning northern China and southern Mongolia, are the two major dust source regions in East Asia, with substantial influence on China’s atmospheric environment a...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,243 Views
12 Pages

25 June 2015

Dust storms have impacts on both human and physical environments, associated with an increase in atmospheric particulate matter (PM) concentrations. Most studies on exposure to PM have focused on the outdoor air, while information on indoor pollution...

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  • Open Access
1,547 Views
23 Pages

Research on Key Sand Generating Parameters and Remote Sensing Traceability of Dust Storms in the Taklamakan Desert

  • Mayibaier Maihamuti,
  • Wen Huo,
  • Yongqiang Liu,
  • Yifei Wang,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Chenglong Zhou,
  • Xinghua Yang and
  • Ali Mamtimin

28 May 2025

This study investigated the dust storm observation data from the Taklimakan Desert in 2018, focusing on analyzing horizontal dust flux (Q), vertical dust flux (F), their relationships with aerosol optical depth (AOD), and the relationship between HYS...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,834 Views
21 Pages

A Success Story in Controlling Sand and Dust Storms Hotspots in the Middle East

  • Ali Al-Dousari,
  • Ali Omar,
  • Ali Al-Hemoud,
  • Abdulaziz Aba,
  • Majid Alrashedi,
  • Mohamad Alrawi,
  • Alireza Rashki,
  • Peter Petrov,
  • Modi Ahmed and
  • Noor Al-Dousari
  • + 5 authors

22 August 2022

Using 30 years of satellite observations, two sand and dust storms (SDS) source locations (hotspots) were detected on the southern side of the Mesopotamian Flood Plain. Around 40 million people in the region are affected by the two hotspots, includin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,229 Views
25 Pages

Sand and Dust Storms’ Impact on the Efficiency of the Photovoltaic Modules Installed in Baghdad: A Review Study with an Empirical Investigation

  • Miqdam T. Chaichan,
  • Hussein A. Kazem,
  • Ali H. A. Al-Waeli,
  • Kamaruzzaman Sopian,
  • Mohammed A. Fayad,
  • Wissam H. Alawee,
  • Hayder A. Dhahad,
  • Wan Nor Roslam Wan Isahak and
  • Ahmed A. Al-Amiery

7 May 2023

Airborne dust and dust storms are natural disasters that transport dust over long distances from the source basin, sometimes reaching hundreds of kilometers. Today, Iraq is a basin that produces dust storms that strike all neighboring countries such...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,669 Views
14 Pages

12 March 2023

Sand and dust storms are hazardous to the environment and have a significant role in desertification. Under the influence of climate change and human activities, dust storms and aeolian processes have been common phenomena in the Southern Balkash des...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,335 Views
13 Pages

Dust Storms Increase the Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

  • Chin-Shyan Chen,
  • Conmin Chen and
  • Tsai-Ching Liu

The main purpose of this study was to examine the association between dust storms (DSs) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) using a 5 year representative national dataset with one million participants, according to information on DS, meteorolo...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,816 Views
16 Pages

23 November 2022

The Lidar on the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission, makes robust measurements of dust and has generated a record that is significant both seasonally and interannually. We exploit this record to deter...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,849 Views
9 Pages

1 September 2024

Our study is the first to illuminate a previously underexplored dimension in the intricate interplay between environmental factors, specifically dust storms (DSs), and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) outcomes. An Auto Regressive Moving Average (ARMA) time-...

  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
13,170 Views
20 Pages

13 January 2023

This study aims to determine the reasons for the increase in the frequency of sand and dust storms in the Middle East and to identify their sources and mitigate them. A set of climatic data from 60 years (1960–2022) was analyzed. Sand storms in...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,714 Views
16 Pages

Assessment of Rural Vulnerability to Sand and Dust Storms in Iran

  • Ali Darvishi Boloorani,
  • Masoud Soleimani,
  • Najmeh Neysani Samany,
  • Mohsen Bakhtiari,
  • Masomeh Qareqani,
  • Ramin Papi and
  • Saham Mirzaei

31 January 2023

Climate-related hazards such as sand and dust storms (SDS) have various impacts on human health, socio-economy, environment, and agroecosystems. Iran has been severely affected by domestic and external SDS during the last two decades. Considering the...

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  • Open Access
84 Citations
14,584 Views
19 Pages

Economic Impact and Risk Assessment of Sand and Dust Storms (SDS) on the Oil and Gas Industry in Kuwait

  • Ali Al-Hemoud,
  • Ali Al-Dousari,
  • Raafat Misak,
  • Mane Al-Sudairawi,
  • Adil Naseeb,
  • Hassan Al-Dashti and
  • Noor Al-Dousari

3 January 2019

There is a lack of published research on the economic effect and the risk associated with sand and dust storms (SDS) worldwide. The objectives of this study are to estimate the economic impact of SDS on the oil and gas industry in Kuwait, to estimate...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,592 Views
13 Pages

Emergency Hospital Visits in Association with Volcanic Ash, Dust Storms and Other Sources of Ambient Particles: A Time-Series Study in Reykjavík, Iceland

  • Hanne Krage Carlsen,
  • Thorarinn Gislason,
  • Bertil Forsberg,
  • Kadri Meister,
  • Throstur Thorsteinsson,
  • Thorsteinn Jóhannsson,
  • Ragnhildur Finnbjornsdottir and
  • Anna Oudin

Volcanic ash contributed significantly to particulate matter (PM) in Iceland following the eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull 2010 and Grímsvötn 2011. This study aimed to investigate the association between different PM sources and emergency hospital visi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,481 Views
16 Pages

Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Dust Storms in Uzbekistan from Meteorological Station Records (2010–2023)

  • Natella Rakhmatova,
  • Bakhriddin E. Nishonov,
  • Lyudmila Shardakova,
  • Albina Akhmedova,
  • Alisher Khudoyberdiev,
  • Valeriya Rakhmatova and
  • Dmitry A. Belikov

26 June 2025

This study provides a comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of sand and dust storms (SDSs) in Uzbekistan using ground-based meteorological data from 2010 to 2023. The results reveal significant spatial heterogeneity in the SDS activity, with the high...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,876 Views
21 Pages

29 May 2024

Mars atmospheric dynamics are crucial for understanding its climate and weather patterns, especially over plateaus. Previous studies have explored localized atmospheric heating mechanisms over Mars plateaus only to a little extent. The local atmosphe...

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  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,830 Views
10 Pages

A case-crossover study examined how PM2.5 from Asian Dust Storms (ADS) affects the number of emergency room (ER) admissions for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and respiratory diseases (RDs). Our data indicated that PM2.5 concentration from ADS was hi...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,849 Views
12 Pages

26 February 2024

Two severe dust storm (DS) events (15–17 March and 28–29 March) hit northern China in 2021 consecutively. The lower atmospheric vertical dynamic and thermal structures during the two cases were compared using the ground-based sensor data...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,572 Views
15 Pages

A Study on Dust Storm Pollution and Source Identification in Northwestern China

  • Hongfei Meng,
  • Feiteng Wang,
  • Guangzu Bai and
  • Huilin Li

3 January 2025

In April 2023, a major dust storm event in Lanzhou attracted widespread attention. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the causes, progression, and dust sources of this event using multiple data sources and methods. Backward trajectory an...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,851 Views
15 Pages

26 October 2020

In efforts to structure an expression for wave attenuation under a sand/dust storm, most established calculations pronounce optical visibility as an essential parameter. Although visibility information can be retrieved from weather stations, other co...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,386 Views
12 Pages

Simulation of an Asian Dust Storm Event in May 2017

  • Ping Song,
  • Jianfang Fei,
  • Changshun Li and
  • Xiaogang Huang

13 March 2019

Dust particles in the atmosphere play an important role in air pollution, climate change, and biogeochemical cycles. Some of the dominant sources of dust in mid-latitude regions are in Asia. An intense dust storm engulfed Northern China at the beginn...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,129 Views
19 Pages

3 November 2023

Sand and dust storm (SDS) weather has caused several severe hazards in many regions worldwide, e.g., environmental pollution, traffic disruptions, and human casualties. Widespread surveillance cameras show great potential for high spatiotemporal reso...

  • Review
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120 Citations
11,907 Views
12 Pages

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...

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49 Citations
7,604 Views
18 Pages

Synoptic Causes and Socio-Economic Consequences of a Severe Dust Storm in the Middle East

  • Nick Middleton,
  • Saviz Sehat Kashani,
  • Sara Attarchi,
  • Mehdi Rahnama and
  • Sahar Tajbakhsh Mosalman

30 October 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...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,268 Views
13 Pages

The associations between particulate matter from Asian dust storms (ADS) and health disorders differ among studies, and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, ADS and non-ADS particles were tested for their potential to induce pro-i...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,188 Views
18 Pages

Detection of a Dust Storm in 2020 by a Multi-Observation Platform over the Northwest China

  • Lili Yang,
  • Zhiyuan Hu,
  • Zhongwei Huang,
  • Lina Wang,
  • Wenyu Han,
  • Yanping Yang,
  • Huijie Tao and
  • Jing Wang

10 March 2021

Dust storms have occurred frequently in northwest China and can dramatically reduce visibility and exacerbate air quality in downwind regions through long-range transport. In order to study the distribution characteristics of dust particles sizes, st...

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  • Open Access
426 Views
15 Pages

9 November 2025

In this paper, a novel model of dust storm intensity variations and its effects on earth–satellite link design for total attenuation prediction has been developed. The proposed model expresses the total dust-induced attenuation as a function of...

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  • Open Access
1,361 Views
14 Pages

21 March 2025

Accurate identification of dust emission sources is crucial for simulating dust aerosols in atmospheric chemical models. Therefore, a dynamically updated dust source function (DSF) was developed within the dust emission scheme of the Weather Research...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,627 Views
13 Pages

Satellite Monitoring of the Dust Storm over Northern China on 15 March 2021

  • Jingning Luo,
  • Fuxiang Huang,
  • Song Gao,
  • Song Liu,
  • Ruixia Liu and
  • Abhay Devasthale

19 January 2022

Northern China was hit by a severe dust storm on 15 March 2021, covering a large area and bring devastating impact to a degree that was unprecedented in more than a decade. In the study, we carried out a day-and-night continuous monitoring to the pat...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,235 Views
26 Pages

Numerical Simulation of Tehran Dust Storm on 2 June 2014: A Case Study of Agricultural Abandoned Lands as Emission Sources

  • Ana Vukovic Vimic,
  • Bojan Cvetkovic,
  • Theodore M. Giannaros,
  • Reza Shahbazi,
  • Saviz Sehat Kashani,
  • Jose Prieto,
  • Vassiliki Kotroni,
  • Konstantinos Lagouvardos,
  • Goran Pejanovic and
  • Slavko Petkovic
  • + 5 authors

17 August 2021

On 2 June 2014, at about 13 UTC, a dust storm arrived in Tehran as a severe hazard that caused injures, deaths, failures in power supply, and traffic disruption. Such an extreme event is not considered as common for the Tehran area, which has raised...

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32 Citations
8,015 Views
17 Pages

Dust Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval and Dust Storm Detection for Xinjiang Region Using Indian National Satellite Observations

  • Aojie Di,
  • Yong Xue,
  • Xihua Yang,
  • John Leys,
  • Jie Guang,
  • Linlu Mei,
  • Jingli Wang,
  • Lu She,
  • Yincui Hu and
  • Xingwei He
  • + 2 authors

26 August 2016

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) is located near the western border of China. Xinjiang has a high frequency of dust storms, especially in late winter and early spring. Geostationary satellite remote sensing offers an ideal way to moni...

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