Lessons from the COVID-19 air pollution decrease in Spain: Now what?
We offer an overview of the COVID-19-driven air quality changes across 11 metropolises in
Spain with the focus on lessons learned on how continuing abating pollution. Traffic flow …
Spain with the focus on lessons learned on how continuing abating pollution. Traffic flow …
[HTML][HTML] ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS): a global fine-resolution dust optical depth data set
A Gkikas, E Proestakis, V Amiridis… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - amt.copernicus.org
Monitoring and describing the spatiotemporal variability in dust aerosols is crucial for
understanding their multiple effects, related feedbacks, and impacts within the Earth system …
understanding their multiple effects, related feedbacks, and impacts within the Earth system …
[HTML][HTML] Changing nature of Saharan dust deposition in the Carpathian Basin (Central Europe): 40 years of identified North African dust events (1979–2018)
G Varga - Environment international, 2020 - Elsevier
Several billion tonnes of mineral dust is emitted, and transported through winds every year
from arid-semiarid areas. North African dust hot spots located in the Sahara are responsible …
from arid-semiarid areas. North African dust hot spots located in the Sahara are responsible …
[HTML][HTML] Quantification of the dust optical depth across spatiotemporal scales with the MIDAS global dataset (2003–2017)
A Gkikas, E Proestakis, V Amiridis… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Quantifying the dust optical depth (DOD) and its uncertainty across spatiotemporal scales is
key to understanding and constraining the dust cycle and its interactions with the Earth …
key to understanding and constraining the dust cycle and its interactions with the Earth …
Long-term three-dimensional distribution and transport of Saharan dust: Observation from CALIPSO, MODIS, and reanalysis data
Desert dust and sand storms from the Sahara can sometimes be transported thousands of
kilometers, causing social and economic damages throughout their path, deteriorating the …
kilometers, causing social and economic damages throughout their path, deteriorating the …
Mediterranean intense desert dust outbreaks and their vertical structure based on remote sensing data
The main aim of the present study is to describe the vertical structure of the intense
Mediterranean dust outbreaks, based on the use of satellite and surface-based retrievals …
Mediterranean dust outbreaks, based on the use of satellite and surface-based retrievals …
Classification of weather clusters over the Middle East associated with high atmospheric dust-AODs in West Iran
K Mohammadpour, M Sciortino, DG Kaskaoutis - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Daily aerosol optical depth (AOD) and meteorological fields obtained from Monitoring
Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC) and ERA-Interim reanalysis, respectively are …
Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC) and ERA-Interim reanalysis, respectively are …
15-year variability of desert dust optical depth on global and regional scales
This study aims to investigate global, regional and seasonal temporal dust changes as well
as the effect of dust particles on total aerosol loading using the ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS) …
as the effect of dust particles on total aerosol loading using the ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS) …
History of Mediterranean aerosol observations
The Mediterranean is a crossroad region for different air masses and, therefore, of many
contrasted aerosol types. It has been a natural laboratory to study their long-range transport …
contrasted aerosol types. It has been a natural laboratory to study their long-range transport …
From tropospheric folding to Khamsin and Foehn winds: How atmospheric dynamics advanced a record-breaking dust episode in Crete
A record-breaking dust episode took place in Crete on 22 March 2018. The event was
characterized by surface concentrations exceeding 1 mg m− 3 for a period of 4–7 h …
characterized by surface concentrations exceeding 1 mg m− 3 for a period of 4–7 h …