Climate change and weather extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

G Zittis, M Almazroui, P Alpert, P Ciais… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observation‐based and modeling studies have identified the Eastern Mediterranean and
Middle East (EMME) region as a prominent climate change hotspot. While several initiatives …

Mineral dust aerosol impacts on global climate and climate change

JF Kok, T Storelvmo, VA Karydis, AA Adebiyi… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Mineral dust aerosols impact the energy budget of Earth through interactions with radiation,
clouds, atmospheric chemistry, the cryosphere and biogeochemistry. In this Review, we …

Earth, wind, fire, and pollution: Aerosol nutrient sources and impacts on ocean biogeochemistry

DS Hamilton, MMG Perron, TC Bond… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
A key Earth system science question is the role of atmospheric deposition in supplying vital
nutrients to the phytoplankton that form the base of marine food webs. Industrial and …

[HTML][HTML] Record-breaking dust loading during two mega dust storm events over northern China in March 2021: Aerosol optical and radiative properties and …

K Gui, W Yao, H Che, L An, Y Zheng, L Li… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Although a remarkable reduction in the frequency of sand and dust storms (SDSs) in the
past several decades has been reported over northern China (NC), two unexpected mega …

A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system

A Adebiyi, JF Kok, BJ Murray, CL Ryder, JBW Stuut… - Aeolian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Mineral dust particles suspended in the atmosphere span more than three orders of
magnitude in diameter, from< 0.1 µm to more than 100 µm. This wide size range makes dust …

Improved representation of the global dust cycle using observational constraints on dust properties and abundance

JF Kok, AA Adebiyi, S Albani… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Even though desert dust is the most abundant aerosol by mass in Earth's atmosphere,
atmospheric models struggle to accurately represent its spatial and temporal distribution …

Mechanisms of climate change and related air pollution on the immune system leading to allergic disease and asthma

V Sampath, J Aguilera, M Prunicki, KC Nadeau - Seminars in immunology, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change is considered the greatest threat to global health. Greenhouse gases as
well as global surface temperatures have increased causing more frequent and intense heat …

Northwestern Pacific tropical cyclone activity enhanced by increased Asian dust emissions during the Little Ice Age

Y Yang, DJW Piper, M Xu, J Gao, J Jia… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Instrumental records reveal that intense tropical cyclone (TC) activity varies with tropical sea
surface temperature (SST) on annual-decadal scales. Drivers of intense TC activity at the …

Long-term variability of dust events in southwestern Iran and its relationship with the drought

NH Hamzeh, DG Kaskaoutis, A Rashki… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dust storms represent a major environmental challenge in the Middle East. The southwest
part of Iran is highly affected by dust events transported from neighboring desert regions …

[HTML][HTML] The discovery of African dust transport to the Western Hemisphere and the Saharan air layer: A history

JM Prospero, AC Delany, AC Delany… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Discovery of African Dust Transport to the Western Hemisphere and the Saharan Air Layer:
A History in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 102 Issue 6 (2021) Jump …