NH025
Long Range transport of Dust and Sand Storms and their Impacts

Session ID#: 78385

Session Description:
Dust and sand storms are common around the globe and effects are seen over many continents and impacts are observed on air quality, agriculture, human health, transportation and aviation services. Dust storms take path over the ocean impacting ocean ecology and also reach over the mountainous regions affecting the snow/glaciers  in the Himalayan, Alps and Rocky regions.   This session invites oral and poster papers related to ground and satellite observations, dust modeling studies, forecast of dust storms, characteristics/variability of dust  from source regions along the tracks, impacts on climate, monsoon,  ecosystems, atmospheric composition, hydrological cycle, dust climate interaction and dust characteristics over different continents,  North Africa, Middle East, Asia, Australia and US.
Index Terms:

4301 Atmospheric [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4321 Climate impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Primary Convener:  Ashraf Farahat, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Conveners:  Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India and Sheng Zheng, Zhejiang University, Department of Land Management, Hangzhou, China
Primary Liaison:  Ramesh P Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, School of Engineering, Mandi, India
 
Downslope Winds and Dust Storms in the Salton Basin (Invited) (493025)
Amato T Evan1, Alexandra Meiko Kuwano1 and Tyler Barbero2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
 
Characteristics of dust particles during Fani Cyclone over Indian region (515248)
Akhilesh Kumar1, Vineet Pratap1, Pradeep Kumar2 and Abhay Kumar Singh3, (1)Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221, India, (2)Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, (3)Banaras Hindu Univ, Varanasi, India
 
Variations on Particle Size Distribution during a Severe Winter Pollution Event and Spring from Xi’an, China (584402)
Yukun Chen1, Ting Wang2, Huiying Peng2 and Yueshe Wang2, (1)Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xian, China, (2)Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
 
Light absorption properties of brown carbon aerosol after coal to natural gas switch policy in China: a case study in winter PM2.5 over Xi'an, northwestern China (595240)
Ting WANG1, Dan Li1, Yukun Chen2 and Yueshe Wang2, (1)Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xian, China, (2)Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
 
Chemical Characteristics and Hygroscopicity of PM2.5 in Haze and Non-haze Episodes of Xi’an, China (603353)
Dan Li1, Huan Xue2, Yanlong Wang2 and Yueshe Wang2, (1)Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xian, China, (2)Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
 
Dust activity in the Southern Hemisphere: Satellite perspective and unanswered questions (Invited) (625493)
Olga V. Kalashnikova1, Yan Yu2, Greg S Okin3, Santiago Gasso4, Michael J Garay1, John E Yorks5 and EMIT team, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (4)GESTAR/NASA, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (5)SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
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