Sand and dust storms (SDSs) are common phenomena in many parts of the world, which
offer serious hazards to the environment, economy and health. An early warning of the …

Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world's drylands, are a
vital component of the environment. This is because of their role in biogeochemical cycling …

Background One of the natural phenomena which have had considerable impacts on
various regions of the world, including Iran, is" dust storm". In recent years, this phenomenon …

Observations from visible, infrared and microwave satellite instruments are integrated to
detect dust storm over northwestern China. Microwave measurements are used to detect the …

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 …

Dust storms are common during the summer season over the Indo-Gangetic basin and are
considered to be a major health hazard to millions of people living in the basin. In countries …

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 …

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 …

Sand and dust storms (SDS) are a natural phenomenon dominantly originating in arid and
semi-arid regions. The vastness and changing distribution of the SDS hotspots, their …

In this paper, a method is proposed to solve the scattering of electromagnetic waves (EMWs)
by a uniformly charged non-spherical scatterer. Based on Waterman's extended boundary …