Dust storms in Iran–Distribution, causes, frequencies and impacts

A Rashki, NJ Middleton, AS Goudie - Aeolian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The occurrence of dust storms in Iran has been a source of interest for centuries, but their
study has increased dramatically over the last two decades. This paper reviews recent work …

Photovoltaic potential assessment and dust impacts on photovoltaic systems in Iran

A Gholami, M Ameri, M Zandi… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasing energy demand, together with environmental concerns, results in a significant
tendency toward the research and development of renewable systems and particularly solar …

[HTML][HTML] Summertime dust storms over the Arabian Peninsula and impacts on radiation, circulation, cloud development and rain

D Francis, JP Chaboureau, N Nelli, J Cuesta… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigates the underlying atmospheric dynamics associated with intense dust
storms in summer 2018 over the Arabian Peninsula (AP); a major dust source at global …

An investigation into climatic and terrestrial drivers of dust storms in the Sistan region of Iran in the early twenty-first century

A Miri, S Maleki, N Middleton - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Dust storms cause a wide range of impacts on environment, economy and human health in
the Sistan region of southeastern Iran. This paper investigates long-term variability of dust …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the number of dusty days around the desert wetlands in southeastern Iran using feature selection and machine learning techniques

Z Ebrahimi-Khusfi, AR Nafarzadegan, F Dargahian - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past decades, some desert wetlands have become critical regions for dust production
in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Accurate prediction of the number of dusty …

Regime shift in Arabian dust activity, triggered by persistent Fertile Crescent drought

M Notaro, Y Yu, OV Kalashnikova - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Arabian Peninsula has experienced pronounced interannual to decadal
variability in dust activity, including an abrupt regime shift around 2006 from an inactive dust …

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 …

Application of remote sensing techniques and machine learning algorithms in dust source detection and dust source susceptibility mapping

M Boroughani, S Pourhashemi, H Hashemi… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of this research was to develop a method to produce a Dust Source Susceptibility
Map (DSSM). For this purpose, we applied remote sensing and statistical-based machine …

Aerosol properties, trends and classification of key types over the Middle East from satellite-derived atmospheric optical data

S Sabetghadam, O Alizadeh, M Khoshsima… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aerosol optical properties have been analyzed to investigate seasonal and regional
variability of aerosols and to classify their key types over the Middle East during the period …

Numerical simulations of dust storms originated from dried lakes in central and southwest Asia: The case of Aral Sea and Sistan Basin

S Karami, NH Hamzeh, DG Kaskaoutis, A Rashki… - Aeolian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Ephemeral and dried lakes in southwest and central Asia, such as the Aral Sea and
Hamouns in east Iran, are major sources of dust storms with an increasing tendency during …