Climate change and weather extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

G Zittis, M Almazroui, P Alpert, P Ciais… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observation‐based and modeling studies have identified the Eastern Mediterranean and
Middle East (EMME) region as a prominent climate change hotspot. While several initiatives …

Aerosol climatology over four AERONET sites: An overview

HD Kambezidis, DG Kaskaoutis - Atmospheric Environment, 2008 - Elsevier
A 3-year data set from the AERONET sunphotometers is used to remotely sense the aerosol
optical depth (AOD) and the Ångström wavelength exponent (α) in four key locations …

Impact of agriculture crop residue burning on atmospheric aerosol loading–a study over Punjab State, India

AR Sharma, SK Kharol, KVS Badarinath… - Annales …, 2010 - angeo.copernicus.org
The present study deals with the impact of agriculture crop residue burning on aerosol
properties during October 2006 and 2007 over Punjab State, India using ground based …

Long-range transport of aerosols from agriculture crop residue burning in Indo-Gangetic Plains—a study using LIDAR, ground measurements and satellite data

KVS Badarinath, SK Kharol, AR Sharma - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Agriculture crop residue burning in tropics is an important source of atmospheric aerosols
and monitoring their long-range transport is an important element in climate change studies …

Broadband optical properties of biomass‐burning aerosol and identification of brown carbon chromophores

N Bluvshtein, P Lin, JM Flores, L Segev… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The radiative effects of biomass‐burning aerosols on regional and global scales can be
substantial. Accurate modeling of the radiative effects of smoke aerosols requires …

Long-range transport of dust aerosols over the Arabian Sea and Indian region—A case study using satellite data and ground-based measurements

KVS Badarinath, SK Kharol, DG Kaskaoutis… - Global and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
The present study addresses an intense dust storm event over the Persian Gulf and the
Arabian Sea (AS) region and its transport over the Indian subcontinent using multi-satellite …

Variations in the aerosol optical properties and types over the tropical urban site of Hyderabad, India

DG Kaskaoutis, KVS Badarinath… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosol measurements over the tropical urban site of Hyderabad, India, provide a way of
determining the variability of the aerosol characteristics over a duration of 1 year (October …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term multi-source data analysis about the characteristics of aerosol optical properties and types over Australia

X Yang, C Zhao, Y Yang, H Fan - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
The spatiotemporal distributions of aerosol optical properties and major aerosol types, along
with the vertical distribution of major aerosol types over Australia, are investigated based on …

Aerosol climatology at Delhi in the western Indo‐Gangetic Plain: Microphysics, long‐term trends, and source strengths

NK Lodhi, SN Beegum, S Singh… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present the climatology of aerosol microphysics, its trends, and impact of potential
sources based on the long term measurements (for a period of 11.5 years from December …

Investigation of June 2020 giant Saharan dust storm using remote sensing observations and model reanalysis

A Asutosh, V Vinoj, N Murukesh, R Ramisetty… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
This paper investigates the characteristics and impact of a major Saharan dust storm during
June 14th–19th 2020 on atmospheric radiative and thermodynamics properties over the …