Desert Dust Outbreaks over Mediterranean Basin: A Modeling, Observational, and Synoptic Analysis Approach

African dust outbreaks over the Mediterranean Basin during 2001--2011

Optical properties of mineral dust outbreaks over the northeastern Mediterranean

[1] Ground-based aerosol optical measurements were conducted within the framework of the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) program at the IMS-METU site at Erdemli (36 330N, 34 150E) along the Turkish coast of the northeastern Mediterranean from January 2000 to June 2001. The measurements were used to identify and define predominant regional aerosol optical properties, with an emphasis on minera...

Desert dust outbreaks and respiratory morbidity in Athens, Greece

BACKGROUND Ambient particulate matter (PM) has an adverse effect on respiratory morbidity. Desert dust outbreaks contribute to increased PM levels but the toxicity of desert dust mixed with anthropogenic pollutants needs clarification. METHODS We identified 132 days with desert dust episodes and 177 matched days by day of the week, season, temperature and humidity between 2001 and 2006 in Ath...

controls on air pollution over a semi-enclosed basin, tehran: a synoptic climatological approach

in this study, a new array of meteorological elements and a synoptic climatologic classification to produce abaseline climate and to derive meteorological factors that are effective on air pollution in tehran, which is located in a semi-enclosed basin was developed. the data set includes daily sea-level pressure and 500mb geopotential height fields from ncep-ncar and tehran upper air sounding d...

Offshore Wind Climatology over the Mediterranean Basin

A. Lavagnini*, Anna M. Sempreviva and C. Transerici, Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima, CNR, Sezione di Roma, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Rome, Italy C. Accadia, M. Casaioli and S. Mariani, Agenzia per la Protezione dell’Ambiente e per i Servizi Tecnici, Via Curtatone 3, I-00100 Rome, Italy A. Speranza, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Camerino, Via ...