Exploració per tema "Saharan dust"
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Profiling of Saharan dust from the Caribbean to western Africa – Part 2: Shipborne lidar measurements versus forecasts
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2017-12-12)
Article
Accés obertA unique 4-week ship cruise from Guadeloupe to Cabo Verde in April–May 2013 see part 1, Rittmeister et al. (2017) is used for an in-depth comparison of dust profiles observed with a polarization/Raman lidar aboard the ... -
Saharan dust events in the dust belt -Canary Islands- and the observed association with in-hospital mortality of patients with heart failure
(MDPI, 2020-01-30)
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Accés obertRecent studies have found increases in the cardiovascular mortality rates during poor air quality events due to outbreaks of desert dust. In Tenerife, we collected (2014–2017) data in 829 patients admitted with a heart ... -
Sources and processes affecting levels and composition of atmospheric particulate matter in the Western Mediterranean
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2002-12-03)
Tesi
Accés obertThis study is focused on the identification of the sources and processes affecting levels and composition of PM10 and PM2.5 from air quality monitoring networks in Eastern Spain. This is a multidisciplinary study. Time ... -
Spatiotemporal evolution of a severe winter dust event in the western Mediterranean: Aerosol optical and physical properties
(2017-05-16)
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Accés obertAn outstanding Saharan dust event affected the Iberian Peninsula during winter 2016 (20 to 25 February). The impact of this event on ambient PM10 surface levels and its spatial and temporal evolution was investigated by ... -
The pulsating nature of large-scale Saharan dust transport as a result of interplays between mid-latitude Rossby waves and the North African Dipole Intensity
(Elsevier, 2017-10)
Article
Accés obertIt was previously shown that during August the export of Saharan dust to the Atlantic was strongly affected by the difference of the 700-hPa geopotential height anomaly between the subtropics and the tropics over North ...