Sand and dust storms (SDS) have long been considered as a type of disastrous weather.
Minimizing the severe influence of SDS on the environment and human life has been the …

Dust storms cause a wide range of impacts on environment, economy and human health in
the Sistan region of southeastern Iran. This paper investigates long-term variability of dust …

Urban heat islands, one of the fundamental anthropogenic impacts on local climates, have
been a growing concern especially for high-density urban areas such as Istanbul. This …

In the past decades, some desert wetlands have become critical regions for dust production
in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Accurate prediction of the number of dusty …

Atmospheric conditions and physical characteristics of the earth surface have an important
effect on the spatiotemporal variations of sand-dust events. The main objective of the …

It is necessary to predict wind erosion events and specify the related effective factors to
prioritize management and executive measures to combat desertification caused by wind …

Wind erosion have many negative effects on global terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and
these phenomena are controlled by several factors including climatic, meteorological …

Daily aerosol optical depth (AOD) and meteorological fields obtained from Monitoring
Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC) and ERA-Interim reanalysis, respectively are …

Present research aimed to develop monthly and annual land-use regression (LUR) model
for simulation of particulate matter (PM) concentration using conventional linear regression …

Dust pollution is one of the major environmental crises in the arid regions of Iran and there is
a need to predict dust pollution and identify its controlling factors to help reduce its adverse …