Contaminants can be transported rapidly and over relatively long distances by atmospheric
dust and aerosol relative to other media such as water, soil and biota; yet few studies have …

Air quality transcends all scales with in the atmosphere from the local to the global with
handovers and feedbacks at each scale interaction. Air quality has manifold effects on …

The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network, EARLINET, was founded in 2000 as a
research project for establishing a quantitative, comprehensive, and statistically significant …

The need for a better understanding of the role of atmospheric dust in the climate system
and its impact on the environment has led to research of the underlying causes of dust …

Online coupled mesoscale meteorology atmospheric chemistry models have undergone a
rapid evolution in recent years. Although mainly developed by the air quality modelling …

Located in the dust belt, the Arabian Peninsula is a major source of atmospheric dust.
Frequent dust outbreaks and some 15 to 20 dust storms per year have profound effects on …

In climate and weather models, the quantitative description of aerosol and cloud processes
relies on simplified assumptions. This contributes major uncertainties to the prediction of …

On April 15 and 19, 1998, two intense dust storms were generated over the Gobi desert by
springtime low‐pressure systems descending from the northwest. The windblown dust was …

Atmospheric mineral dust has recently become an important research field in Earth system
science because of its impacts on radiation, clouds, atmospheric dynamics and chemistry …

Numerical models that combine weather forecasting and atmospheric chemistry are here
referred to as chemical weather forecasting models. Eighteen operational chemical weather …