Photovoltaic potential assessment and dust impacts on photovoltaic systems in Iran

A Gholami, M Ameri, M Zandi… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasing energy demand, together with environmental concerns, results in a significant
tendency toward the research and development of renewable systems and particularly solar …

Spatial and temporal variability of carbonaceous aerosols: assessing the impact of biomass burning in the urban environment

G Titos, A Del Águila, A Cazorla, H Lyamani… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biomass burning (BB) is a significant source of atmospheric particles in many parts of the
world. Whereas many studies have demonstrated the importance of BB emissions in central …

Numerical simulations of dust storms originated from dried lakes in central and southwest Asia: The case of Aral Sea and Sistan Basin

S Karami, NH Hamzeh, DG Kaskaoutis, A Rashki… - Aeolian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Ephemeral and dried lakes in southwest and central Asia, such as the Aral Sea and
Hamouns in east Iran, are major sources of dust storms with an increasing tendency during …

Assessment of dust activity and dust-plume pathways over Jazmurian Basin, southeast Iran

A Rashki, M Arjmand, DG Kaskaoutis - Aeolian Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Jazmurian (or hamun-e Jaz Murian) is a dried lake located in a topographic-low basin in
southeast Iran and a major source for high dust emissions under favorable weather …

A European aerosol phenomenology–6: scattering properties of atmospheric aerosol particles from 28 ACTRIS sites

M Pandolfi, L Alados-Arboledas… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
This paper presents the light-scattering properties of atmospheric aerosol particles
measured over the past decade at 28 ACTRIS observatories, which are located mainly in …

Estimating particulate matter using satellite based aerosol optical depth and meteorological variables in Malaysia

NAFK Zaman, KD Kanniah, DG Kaskaoutis - Atmospheric Research, 2017 - Elsevier
The insufficient number of ground-based stations for measuring Particulate Matter< 10 μm
(PM 10) in the develo** countries hinders PM 10 monitoring at a regional scale. The …

[HTML][HTML] New particle formation at urban and high-altitude remote sites in the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula

JA Casquero-Vera, H Lyamani, L Dada… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
A substantial fraction of the atmospheric aerosols originates from secondary new particle
formation (NPF), where atmospheric vapours are transformed into particles that …

The Caspian Sea–Hindu Kush Index (CasHKI): a regulatory factor for dust activity over southwest Asia

DG Kaskaoutis, EE Houssos, A Rashki… - Global and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
This work investigates the modulation in dust activity over southwest (SW) Asia attributed to
changes in the mean sea level pressure (MSLP) between the Caspian Sea (CS) and Hindu …

Modeled source apportionment of black carbon particles coated with a light-scattering shell

A Virkkula - Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions, 2020 - amt.copernicus.org
The Aethalometer model been used widely for estimating the contributions of fossil fuel
emissions and biomass burning to equivalent black carbon (eBC). The calculation is based …

Detection of Saharan dust and biomass burning events using near-real-time intensive aerosol optical properties in the north-western Mediterranean

M Ealo, A Alastuey, A Ripoll, N Pérez… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
The study of Saharan dust events (SDEs) and biomass burning (BB) emissions are both
topics of great scientific interest since they are frequent and important polluting scenarios …