How different source regions across the Middle East change aerosol and dust particle characteristics

Diurnal variability of dust aerosol optical thickness and Angström exponent over dust source regions in China

[1] Using 22 months of Sunphotometer Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) data collected near the Taklamakan and Gobi dust source regions (Dunhuang, 40.09 N, 94.41 E) in China; we examine the diurnal and seasonal change of dust aerosol properties. Most dust events are during the spring through early summer months with a season-invariant diurnal change of more than ±10% for AOTand ±30% for Angström e...

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

Study of seasonal distribution of dust in the Middle East region using CALIOP and MODIS data

Aerosol optical depth in 550 nm and angstrom exponent measurements with MODIS have been studied with 1-degree resolution for the period 2006-2017 in the middle east. Moreover, tropospheric aerosol optical depth and depolarization ratios measured at 532 nm with CALIOP have been studied for same area and same period of time too. These parameters have been classified seasonally. Optical depth resu...

Potential source regions and processes of the aerosol

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An Assessment of Wind Erosion Schemes in Dust Emission Simulations over the Middle East

Extended abstract 1- INTRODUCTION        Atmospheric aerosols, solid and liquid particles in the atmosphere, play a crucial role in the atmospheric radiation equilibrium. These particles have an influence on the scattering and absorption of short wavelength radiation, and on the other hand, affect radiation absorption and emission in long wavelengths. Dust particles are among the importan...

OrienTel - Telephony Databases Across Northern Africa and the Middle East

OrienTel is a project that over the past two-and-half years developed speech databases and phonetic standards across Northern Africa, the Middle East and the Arabian Gulf. The project is funded by the European Commission and is coordinated by ScanSoft (Germany and Belgium). Other partners are ELDA (France), IBM (Germany), NSC (Israel), Siemens (Germany), Lucent (UK), Knowledge, the University o...