Desert dust forms significant atmospheric dust corridors in the Middle East

Dust particles were identified from satellite observations by utilising data on particle size obtained from measurements. To identify the atmospheric dust corridors, the researchers developed an automated algorithm that utilised the daily observations. This way, a total of 281 atmospheric dust corridors were found, and they occurred most frequently in September, April and March. The lowest number of atmospheric dust corridors was found in February, October and December.

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Senior Scientist Tero Mielonen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, tel. 050 401 8738, tero.mielonen@fmi.fi

Scientific article available on Atmospheric Research.

Reference: Rezaei, M., Mielonen, T., Farajzadeh, M.: Climatology of atmospheric dust corridors in the Middle East based on satellite data, Atmospheric Research, 280, 106454, 2022.