Desert Dust
Desert dust outbreaks and respiratory morbidity in Athens, Greece
... particles, desert dust has further characteristics that may result in additional adverse health ...the desert dust particles may not be assessed by the global measurement of particles’ ...the ...
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Evaluation of the Lidar/Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC) to determine microphysical properties of volcanic and desert dust
... elastic-backscatter lidar return signals at 355, 532, and 1064 nm and, as a priori assumptions, AERONET photome- ter retrieval products (column-integrated particle size distri- butions, composition, complex refractive ...
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<p>Extreme desert dust storms and COPD morbidity on the island of Crete</p>
... tion, especially in patients with preexisting respiratory diseases, 4 several previous studies failed to show a statistically signi fi cant impact of desert dust storms on emergency depart- ment (ED) visits ...
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High-resolution provenance of desert dust deposited on Mt. Elbrus, Caucasus in 2009–2012 using snow pit and firn core records
... of desert dust deposition events, de- rived from a snow pit and a shallow firn core, encompass- ing the 2009–2012 period was for the first time presented for the Caucasus Mountains, ...preserving ...
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Retrieval of desert dust aerosol vertical profiles from IASI measurements in the TIR atmospheric window
... Abstract. Desert dust aerosols are the most prominent tro- pospheric aerosols, playing an important role in the earth’s ...the dust aerosol’s vertical profile on a global ...retrieving dust ...
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Scaling properties of rainfall and desert dust in the Canary Islands
... and desert dust emission ...and desert aerosol outbreaks in the Canary Islands and the intrinsic complexity of these phenomena, the main goal of this study is to contribute to a better understanding ...
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Aggravation of ovalbumin-induced murine asthma by co-exposure to desert-dust and organic chemicals: an animal model study
... This study demonstrates that H-ASD with low levels of Tar exacerbates OVA-induced lung eosinophilia via in- creases in Th2-mediated cytokines and antigen-specific immunoglobulin. The aggravation of the allergic lung ...
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Consistency of dimensional distributions and refractive indices of desert dust measured over Lampedusa with IASI radiances
... the ADRIMED field campaign (Aerosol Direct Radiative Im- pact on the regional climate in the MEDiterranean region). Here, we exploit the measurements acquired on board the ATR-42 aircraft, operated by SAFIRE (Service des ...
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Birth cohort study on the effects of desert dust exposure on children's health: protocol of an adjunct study of the Japan Environment & Children’s Study
... The introduction of LIDAR data for exposure measure- ments in epidemiological studies is a recent endeav- our. 17 18 21 PM2.5 and PM10 have long been used to investigate the effects of particulate matter on health out- ...
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Legal immigrants: invasion of alien microbial communities during winter occurring desert dust storms
... Especially, desert dust storms can transport alien microorganisms over continental scales and can deposit them in sensitive sink ...Saharan dust event in Italy was efficiently deposited on the ...
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Gasteiger, Josef Konrad (2011): Retrieval of microphysical properties of desert dust and volcanic ash aerosols from ground-based remote sensing. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Physik
... one desert dust ensemble that agrees both with lidar and considered photometer ...the desert aerosol ensemble from OPAC when it was modified for a more realistic representation of microphysical ...
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Satellite retrieval of aerosol microphysical and optical parameters using neural networks: a new methodology applied to the Sahara desert dust peak
... of desert dust does not have a clearly defined minimum to separate the coarse and fine ...for desert dust AVSDs, V (f ) is a small proportion of the total volume concentration ( ≤ 9 ...
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Intercomparison of desert dust optical depth from satellite measurements
... the dust plume compared to OMI-NASA, and, in comparison with the other dataset, OMI-KNMI tends to give higher AOD in the southern part of the region considered in this compari- ...of dust retrieval over ...
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Observing desert dust devils with a pressure logger
... the power consumption by a factor of 3–4. Because extended cloudy periods may allow the secondary battery to become temporarily exhausted (which would reset the datalogger and stop its operation), this approach was ...
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Clear-cut, Easy and Safe Air Purifying Technique (Poyrazmatic)
... the desert dust pulses have shown that those test animals kept under dust free conditions did not affected from the adverse effect of dust transport and the ones who are subjected to ...
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Statistically optimized inversion algorithm for enhanced retrieval of aerosol properties from spectral multi-angle polarimetric satellite observations
... sites: desert dust and biomass burn- ...by desert dust outbreaks with notable seasonal contributions of ...contrast, desert dust is dominated by coarse non-spherical and weakly ...
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CTA Atmospheric Calibration
... from desert dust intrusions or biomass burning) typi- cally degrade the transmission of all Cherenkov light [9], the vertical structure of higher altitude aerosols and clouds (including cirrus) must be ...
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Curriculum vitae of the LOTOS–EUROS (v2.0) chemistry transport model
... mineral dust in LOTOS–EUROS with emission parametriza- tions for road resuspension, agricultural land management and wind erosion or desert dust (Schaap et ...
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Desert/Oasis: interruption and continuation
... the desert, but rather as a modulation, continuation, or even reproduction of ...Red Desert, at a time of renewed and intense cultural visibility of the desert, a number of artists begun introducing ...
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Effects of atmospheric dust deposition on leaf chlorophyll fluorescence parameters of cow-tail shrubs (Smirnovia iranica) in the desert regions of Kashan, Iran
... important bio-indicator of vegetation performance, especially under unfavourable environmental conditions. In the current study, the dust exposure of S. iranica plants led to a substantial reduction in the content ...
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