Urban heat islands (UHI) represent one of the substantial human-induced challenges
endangering urban livelihoods. UHI and climate change have significant interactions …

In the last decades, Egypt has been suffering from the phenomenon of black cloud resulting
from burning rice husk and increasing the demand for water leading to the water crisis. An …

This study estimates the impact of dust aerosols on surface solar radiation and solar energy
in Egypt based on Earth Observation (EO) related techniques. For this purpose, we exploited …

Three years (2006–2008) of ground-based observations of the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)
in the urban environment of Athens, in the Eastern Mediterranean, are analysed in this work …

The main goal of this study is to analyze the dependence of columnar aerosol optical and
microphysical properties on source region and transport pathways during desert dust …

The Nile Delta major cities, particularly Cairo, experienced stagnant air pollution episodes,
known as Black Cloud, every year over the past decade during autumn. Low‐elevated …

A dust storm of fearful proportions hit Phoenix in the early evening hours of 5 July 2011. This
storm, an American haboob, was predicted hours in advance because numerical, land …

In this study, we systematically document the link between dust episodes and local scale
regional aerosol optical properties over Jaipur located in the vicinity of Thar Desert in the …

Trace metals associated with PM 10 aerosols and their variation during day and nighttime as
well as during different seasons have been studied for the year 2012. PCA analysis …

Comparative analysis of Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR), Moderate
Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) …