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 …

[HTML][HTML] How well do the CMIP6 models simulate dust aerosols?

A Zhao, CL Ryder, LJ Wilcox - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Mineral dust impacts key processes in the Earth system, including the radiation budget,
clouds, and nutrient cycles. We evaluate dust aerosols in 16 models participating in the sixth …

Disentangling variations of dust concentration in Greenland ice cores over the last glaciation: An overview of current knowledge and new initiative

Y Li, Y Song, X Li, DG Kaskaoutis, H Gholami… - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Greenland ice cores are high-resolution archives of atmospheric dust loadings, and a better
understanding of the driving factors for Greenland ice core dust concentration changes …

Black carbon-climate interactions regulate dust burdens over India revealed during COVID-19

L Wei, Z Lu, Y Wang, X Liu, W Wang, C Wu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
India as a hotspot for air pollution has heavy black carbon (BC) and dust (DU) loadings. BC
has been identified to significantly impact the Indian climate. However, whether BC-climate …

Possible factors for the recent changes in frequency of central Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation extremes during 2005–2020

C Bajrang, R Attada, BN Goswami - npj Climate and Atmospheric …, 2023 - nature.com
The transitions of short-term trends of Indian Summer Monsoon daily precipitation extremes
remain poorly understood. Here, we show a short-term declination of temporal frequency of …

Synoptic causes and socio-economic consequences of a severe dust storm in the Middle East

N Middleton, SS Kashani, S Attarchi, M Rahnama… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal evolution of aerosols and their extreme events in polluted Asian regions during Terra's 20-year observations

Z Hu, Q Jin, Y Ma, B Pu, Z Ji, Y Wang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aerosol pollution is an acute environmental issue in developing countries. Asia has been
experiencing rapid changes in anthropogenic aerosols during the past two decades due to …

[HTML][HTML] 末次冰盛期东亚沙尘循环的季节扩张: 基于CESM-CAM4-BAM 模拟试验

解小宁, 郭家宁, 王安琪 - 第四纪研究, 2023 - dzkx.org
解小宁, 郭家宁, 王安琪. 末次冰盛期东亚沙尘循环的季节扩张: 基于CESM-CAM4-BAM
模拟试验[J]. 第四纪研究, 2023, 43 (4): 1019-1028. doi: 10.11928/j. issn. 1001-7410.2023 …

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 …

Weakened dust activity over China and Mongolia from 2001 to 2020 associated with climate change and land-use management

S Wang, Y Yu, XX Zhang, H Lu… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Dust cycle is actively involved in the Earth's climate and environmental systems. However,
the spatiotemporal pattern and recent trend of dust emission from the drylands in East Asia …