Sand and dust storms' impact on the efficiency of the photovoltaic modules installed in baghdad: a review study with an empirical investigation

MT Chaichan, HA Kazem, AHA Al-Waeli, K Sopian… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Airborne dust and dust storms are natural disasters that transport dust over long distances
from the source basin, sometimes reaching hundreds of kilometers. Today, Iraq is a basin …

Aquaculture in coastal urbanized areas: A comparative review of the challenges posed by Harmful Algal Blooms

A Trottet, C George, G Drillet… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Increasing global population has resulted in increased urbanization of coastal areas across
the globe. Such an increase generates many challenges for sustainable food production …

Identifying natural dust source regions over the Middle-East and North-Africa: Estimation of dust emission potential

I Gherboudj, SN Beegum, H Ghedira - Earth-science reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study aims to improve our understanding of the spatiotemporal variability of the
dust emission occurrences and intensities over the Middle-East and North-Africa (MENA) …

Removal of Microcystis aeruginosa by manganese activated sodium percarbonate: Performance and role of the in-situ formed MnO2

N Li, F Chen, S Xu, S Zhu, L Bu, L Deng, Z Shi, S Zhou - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous studies have found that pre-oxidation of manganese salts such as potassium
permanganate and potassium manganate can remove algae in water, while existing …

Simulation and analysis of synoptic scale dust storms over the Arabian Peninsula

SN Beegum, I Gherboudj, N Chaouch, M Temimi… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
Dust storms are among the most severe environmental problems in arid and semi-arid
regions of the world. The predictability of seven dust events, viz. D1: April 2–4, 2014; D2 …

Classification of algal bloom species from remote sensing data using an extreme gradient boosted decision tree model

JG Ghatkar, RK Singh… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Coastal and open ocean regions throughout the world are now subject to an array of toxic,
harmful, or more intense algal blooms with an increasing trend of incidence over large …

Marine invertebrate interactions with harmful algal blooms–implications for one health

AD Turner, AM Lewis, K Bradley, BH Maskrey - Journal of invertebrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) are natural atypical proliferations of micro or macro
algae in either marine or freshwater environments which have significant impacts on human …

A regional review of marine and coastal impacts of climate change on the ROPME sea area

S Lincoln, P Buckley, EL Howes, KM Maltby… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME) Sea Area
(RSA) in the northern Indian Ocean, which comprises the Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the …

[HTML][HTML] Marine heatwaves in the Arabian Sea

A Chatterjee, G Anil, LR Shenoy - Ocean Science, 2022 - os.copernicus.org
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged warm sea condition events that can have a
destructive impact on marine ecosystems. The documentation of MHWs and assessment of …

Impact of brine discharge from seawater desalination plants on persian/arabian gulf salinity

HD Ibrahim, EAB Eltahir - Journal of Environmental Engineering, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
Abstract The Persian Gulf (also known as Arabian Gulf) is surrounded by desalination plants
with about 50% of worldwide capacity to desalinate seawater. Most of these plants dispose …