East Asian Study of Tropospheric Aerosols and their Impact on Regional Clouds, Precipitation, and Climate (EAST‐AIRCPC)

Z Li, Y Wang, J Guo, C Zhao, MC Cribb… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosols have significant and complex impacts on regional climate in East Asia. Cloud‐
aerosol‐precipitation interactions (CAPI) remain most challenging in climate studies. The …

The AFWA dust emission scheme for the GOCART aerosol model in WRF-Chem v3. 8.1

SL LeGrand, C Polashenski, TW Letcher… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
Airborne particles of mineral dust play a key role in Earth's climate system and affect human
activities around the globe. The numerical weather modeling community has undertaken …

Dust emission modeling using a new high‐resolution dust source function in WRF‐Chem with implications for air quality

SP Parajuli, GL Stenchikov, A Ukhov… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Air‐borne dust affects all aspects of human life. The sources of dust have high spatial
variation and a better quantification of dust emission helps to identify remediation measures …

The dust load and radiative impact associated with the June 2020 historical Saharan dust storm

D Francis, N Nelli, R Fonseca, M Weston… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
In June 2020, a major dust outbreak occurred in the Sahara that impacted the tropical
Atlantic Ocean. In this study, the dust load and radiative forcing of the dust plumes on both …

[HTML][HTML] Linkage between dust cycle and loess of the Last Glacial Maximum in Europe

EJ Schaffernicht, P Ludwig… - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
This article establishes a linkage between the mineral dust cycle and loess deposits during
the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Europe. To this aim, we simulate the LGM dust cycle at …

MICS-Asia III: multi-model comparison and evaluation of aerosol over East Asia

L Chen, Y Gao, M Zhang, JS Fu, J Zhu… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
A total of 14 chemical transport models (CTMs) participated in the first topic of the Model
Inter-Comparison Study for Asia (MICS-Asia) phase III. These model results are compared …

A multi-objective framework to select numerical options in air quality prediction models: A case study on dust storm modeling

SSH Dehshiri, B Firoozabadi - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Numerical weather prediction models are very important tools in predicting severe weather
phenomena such as dust storms. However, the prediction accuracy in these models …

From tropospheric folding to Khamsin and Foehn winds: How atmospheric dynamics advanced a record-breaking dust episode in Crete

S Solomos, N Kalivitis, N Mihalopoulos, V Amiridis… - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
A record-breaking dust episode took place in Crete on 22 March 2018. The event was
characterized by surface concentrations exceeding 1 mg m− 3 for a period of 4–7 h …

Sensitivity of simulating a dust storm over Central Asia to different dust schemes using the WRF-Chem model

T Yuan, S Chen, J Huang, X Zhang, Y Luo, X Ma… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - Elsevier
Frequent dust storms have harm to human health and agricultural activities in Central Asia.
However, there has been a great deal of uncertainty in prediction of dust storms in Central …

WRF-Chem model simulations of a dust outbreak over the central Mediterranean and comparison with multi-sensor desert dust observations

U Rizza, F Barnaba, MM Miglietta… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
In this study, the Weather Research and Forecasting model with online coupled chemistry
(WRF-Chem) is applied to simulate an intense Saharan dust outbreak event that took place …